[Wikimedia-l] WMUA chapter mailing list switched to 'read-only' mode

[Pavlo Shevelo]

Dear Manuel,

Thanks for your swift comment & advice, I appreciate (while I'm one of the
administrators at WikiUK-l, by the way :) ).

Forgive me for missing the detail which was obvious for me - I'm WMUA
member (from the moment of it legal registration back in 2009) so I'm from
inside WMUA as a project as well as 40+ more WMUA members (beside Board and
AC). In your wording - I'm well inside of "chapter business", the issue is
with the missing (or invalid?) process "the chapter may decide how to use
that list".

That was clear for me (and explained by me in local discussions - in said
mailing list and on community Portal) that if Board needs something only
for announcements ("WikimediaUA-Announce-l or similar"), they should
contact "folks at WMF" and arrange new, additional list (like WMF Board did
some years after creation of 'universal' list).

In addition to that nobody never settled in proper way, that [WikimediaUA]
is "the project list" (if WMUA is not the project by itself) and, moreover,
it should be  "controlled by the board" to that extent as WMUA Board it
defined and settled for themselves.

So I remain with my question about
is there any precedents known, when chapter Board do some alike rulings?
Does it seems appropriate?

All more advices how to create alternative mailing list with help of:
* "folks at WMF"
* automatic services/stuff  at Google (like Google groups etc.)
will be appreciated, but it's not the main focus of my interest.

Sincerely,

Pavlo


On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 6:03 PM, Manuel Schneider <
manuel.schneider at wikimedia.ch> wrote:

> Dear Pavlo,
>
> as that list is dedicated to chapter business, the chapter may decide
> how to use that list.
>
> For open discussions of the ukranian language Wikimedia projects there
> is WikiUK-l:
> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikiuk-l
>
> If there is a real need for a seperate list to discuss chapter business
> which is open, not the project list and not controlled by the board I am
> sure that the folks at WMF are happy to help with that. Maybe the new
> list could then become WikimediaUA-l and the current WikimediaUA-l will
> become WikimediaUA-Announce-l or similar. But this should be discussed
> by the concerned community.
>
>
> /Manuel
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