On 19 October 2010 16:22, Huji Lee huji.huji@gmail.com wrote:

Hello,

I'm asking this here per advice from Cary Bass.

I would like to request an enhancement in the checkuser-l mailing list, which would allow searching the topics and/or contents of archived mails for specific terms. This is particularly useful on this mailing list, because CUs frequently need to check the archives to review previous information about IPs and socks.

I'm aware that our mailing lists are running on Mailman 2.1.9 (which is NOT the latest version [1]). Having checked their website I'm sure such search functionality IS NOT available in mailman, nor through a plug-in. They advise using third-party search engines (like Google), but since checkuser-l is not a public list, Google is not an option. They also suggest using some patches [2] which are compatible with Pipermail, but whether they are suitable in our case is beyond my understanding.

I'm sure I'm not the only one asking for this feature. I'd be grateful if the request was taken into consideration.

Regards,

[1] http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/index.html [2] http://wiki.list.org/display/DOC/How+do+I+make+the+archives+searchable _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Just as a note, and as one of the Checkuser-L mailing list administrators, I'd request that no action be taken on this request until after there has been discussion amongst checkusers, the list administrators, and likely WMF staff as well. Thanks

Risker/Anne (English Wikipedia checkuser and one of the Checkuser-L list administrators)