[Foundation-l] Re: New Wikimediach-l for Wikimedia CH

[Jakob Voss]

Stephan Walter wrote:

> I have submitted the list to gmane.org, so the we'll be able to read the
> list on the gmane.org usenet server. If you don't now about gmane: this
> mail-to-news gateway is really useful, because you won't have thousands
> of email each day if you're subscribed to a lot of mailinglists. See
> http://gmane.org/ for more information.
> 
> The hierarchy currently is a mess:
> 
> gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation.uk
> gmane.org.wikimedia.france
> gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.verein
> 
> I have now asked for wikimediach-l to be
> gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation.switzerland, but maybe they'll change the
> hierarchy.

How about asking Gmane to change

gmane.org.wikimedia.france to
gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation.france
and gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.verein
to gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation.germany

You can discuss whether each chapter is part of the foundation or not 
but regarding the hierarchy it's much better to have each chapter's list 
at gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation.*

Changing gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.* to
gmane.org.wikimedia.wikipedia.* would be logical too but it would break 
too many links so we have to live with it as long as there is nothing 
like a "group redirect".

What's you opinion? May I ask them to change the names?

Greetings,
Jakob

P.S.: By the way Lars Magne does a good job with gmane and we profit 
from it - any ideas how to support him? Maybe We could tell people to 
donate to Gmane (http://gmane.org/donate.php)? If it was a private 
company we could just spend an amount for hosting and archiving our 
mailing lists but donating money that was donated to Wikimedia or one of 
it's chapters it a bit tricky I think.