an english list to reduce traffic at
wikipedia-l
some guys from the de.wikipedia want
to discuss the project
without hearing about TMC and related stuff in 95% of
the mails...
there are a lot of us that think that
such a list should exist,
and should take most of the traffic from
<wikipedia-l>
Please try to decide if your message
is of concern for wikipedia as a
whole (all language wikipedias) or if it
concerns the English Wikipedia
only (problems with users or articles,
projects, internal organization
etc.) and send your message
accordingly.
You will help the foreigners a lot,
who are struggling with the English
language and desperately trying to filter
out the relevant stuff for them
on wikipedia-l ;-)
wikipedia-l should be about the
"project as whole", while wikien-l is specifically about the English
wikipedia.
Since the list is not moderated, it's
just normal list-administration -
choosing taglines, settings and so on, but
it is better if a
native-speaker does them.
All we need are the language-specific
lists and a meta-list for
coordination. The meta-list should be
wikipedia-l. Oh, and of course
wikitech-l.
Traffic on wikipedia-l is currently
high because stuff related to the
English wiki only, esp. admin
requests, goes there as well as policy
discussions. If we separate the
two, traffic should be manageable.
I will stay on the en.list btw. I
strongly support
this change to help the international ones to get
more
involved, plus to make it clear what is a english
concern, and what
should be a whole community concern.
The question was about
administration, not moderation. Choosing
taglines, defining welcome greetings
and all the technical stuff.