[Announce-l] [RFD] to use or not to use: Announce-l

[Giskart]

Request for discussion
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This is a formal Request for Discussion (RFD) about the proposal to use 
       the moderated Wikipedia maillinglist announce-l.
http://www.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/announce-l

This message is posted on Announce-l and Intlwiki-L.
Follow-up to:Intlwiki-L

The discussion time is set on 10 days after publication.
This to give the Ambassadors the opportunity and time to ask en recieve
feedback.

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PROPOSAL:

* to use the moderated maillinglist "Announce-l" for announcing certain
types of information that are important for all Wikipedias.

Those can be;

- formal request for discussion announcement about changes on the
software that have a consequence to all Wikipedias

- formal request for discussion announcement about changes on the global
policy and legal status of all Wikipedias

- a news letter about the global project

- not listed, but very important for the existing of Wikipedia

PRACTICAL:

- When there is a idea to change somthing on a Wikipedia that has a
consequence on all Wikipedias the local Wikipedia community makes a
"Formal Request for Discussion".
- This RFD must have a structure more or less like this message.
- There must be at least 10 days for discussion. This to give the
Ambassadors the opportunity and time to ask en recieve feedback.
- This message must be send to the moderator(s) of Announce-l for
approval. Only messages that are on-topic are posted. A responds to a
message posted on "Announce-l" is not allowed on "Announce-l".

- The actual discussion must be done on Intlwiki-l(wikipedia-l) or
MetaWikipedia.
- After the 10 days there must be a follow-up whit the result, if any.

WHY:

- to prevent that inportant decisions are made very fast on a strange
maillinglist, in a strange language, hidden between 60 or 80 messages a
day, whitout the possibility of real feedback from all Wikipedians and
all Wikipedias.

- if the people can be sure that all inportant things are announced on
the very low traffic list "Announce-l" then the do not have to waste a
couple of houres a day whit all the other lists and work on there Wikipedia.


END OF RFD
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Personal notice: The real creation of the maillinglist "Annouce-l" was
not expected. Now it existed i give it a fair change to have a usefull
live. I am now the "moderator" of Announce-l. I sombody is willing to 
become co-moderator or even take over the list i have no objection. --
Giskart