[writing at personal capacity.]
On Sun, Feb 18, 2018 at 2:55 PM, Joseph Seddon jseddon@wikimedia.org wrote:
The question is, does it need a successor?
Whether mailing list is a good option for the kind of discussions we have in wikimedia-l is not clear to me, however, the list is serving some purposes and we need to make decisions about how those purposes will be served if the list is removed. On a personal and professional level, this list has helped me:
* find a social side to Wikimedia: When I joined WMF as a staff member four years ago, I pretty much knew no one. Keeping an eye on this list has helped me over the years to find a base beyond WMF staff that I know and I can have volunteer, staff, or personal relations with. This is invaluable. :)
* learn about Wikimedia's governance: again, for a newcomer like myself, it was invaluable to be exposed to many different voices, opinions, backgrounds, perspectives, etc. in one place.
* learn about the different projects going on around the Movement.
* find people who are interested to work with me in the research projects I do at staff time.
This being said, I'm all for rethinking how we as a Movement communicate, for what purpose, and what kind of technologies can help us do that more efficiently and effectively.
Leila
Seddon
On Sun, Feb 18, 2018 at 10:42 PM, Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote:
For some time there have been periodic mentions of the idea of moving Wikimedia-l to Discourse. [0]
I am considering establishing a Discourse installation myself and
offering
it to host Wikimedia-l or its successor, which in addition to potential usability improvements from Discourse would have the added benefit that
it
would not be hosted on a WMF server and therefore would be somewhat insulated from governance controversies at WMF such as we have
experienced
in the past and such as the one recently experienced by WMFR. However, I
am
concerned that I would be unable to provide sufficient legal protections for the privacy of the list and its members, so I have not initiated this project.
I think that a good first order of business would be for someone to close the existing RfC on Meta. After that RfC is closed I think that we should have further discussions about how we might like to continue to adjust
our
communications on Wikimedia-l or its successor.
I am currently limiting myself to approximately 15 posts per month until the RfC is closed.
Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
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