[Wikimedia-l] Looking back at the London Conference

[Philippe Beaudette]

>From Ziko's note about this:
> There will be a special list 'WCA-announcements". If you want to be
> informed about Bulletins and discussions, join the list and you will
> get links to Meta Wiki. It's a one-way-list, because the discussions
> are supposed to be on Meta Wiki. This is a WCA service for Council
> Members and non Council Members alike. In this way, nobody is obliged
> to be on a heavy traffic list such as Wikimedia-l.

That's not the way that wikimedia-announce is currently set up (it actually
refers all replies to wikimedia-l).  So if this is really the setup that's
desired, that requires a new (and differently configured) list.

pb

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On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 12:41 PM, Jan-Bart de Vreede <
jdevreede at wikimedia.org> wrote:

> yeah, I was going to suggest the same thing, why make a different list
> with different membership?
>
> Jan-Bart (personally agreeing with mike's personal viewpoint… please don't
> take it personally)
>
>
> On Feb 19, 2013, at 9:09 PM, Michael Peel <michael.peel at wikimedia.org.uk>
> wrote:
>
> >
> > On 19 Feb 2013, at 19:57, Thehelpfulone <thehelpfulonewiki at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> On 19 February 2013 16:10, Ziko van Dijk <vandijk at wmnederland.nl>
> wrote:
> >>
> >>> There will be a special list 'WCA-announcements". If you want to be
> >>> informed about Bulletins and discussions, join the list and you will
> >>> get links to Meta Wiki. It's a one-way-list, because the discussions
> >>> are supposed to be on Meta Wiki. This is a WCA service for Council
> >>> Members and non Council Members alike. In this way, nobody is obliged
> >>> to be on a heavy traffic list such as Wikimedia-l.
> >>>
> >>
> >> Thanks Ziko, I'm happy to create this list for you on the Foundation
> >> servers, please follow the instructions at
> >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists#Create_a_new_list to
> file a
> >> bug. I'd suggest "WCA-Announce" to match our similar announcement lists
> for
> >> MediaWiki, WLM, Toolserver etc and to keep it relatively short.
> >
> > Is there a reason why wikimediaannounce-l can't be used here?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Mike
> > (Personal viewpoint)
> >
> >
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