Re: [MediaWiki-l] Introducing: Professional.Wiki

> From: Pine W > > The mailing list description says that the permitted types of announcements > are for "new versions, bug fixes, and security issues." Advertising of > commercial services is not included. You do realize that, by making such a fuss, you're providing the new Professional.Wiki

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Introducing: Professional.Wiki

Hi Karsten and Jeroen > We are happy to announce the launch of our new wiki company: > Professional.Wiki Good luck to yor new business! And thanks for all you did do before - and after :-) Bests, Markus ___ MediaWiki-l

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Introducing: Professional.Wiki

On Wed, 2019-05-08 at 22:57 -0700, Pine W wrote: > I am willing to ask WMF Legal for its opinion regarding the use of > Wikimedia Foundation mailing lists for advertising commercial hosting > services, but even if WMF Legal thinks that this is OK in terms of the > letter of the law, I don't think

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Introducing: Professional.Wiki

Continuing this is unrelated to the list thread, if you would like to continue this discussion, please create a new thread with a descriptive subject relating to your email. On Thu, 9 May 2019, 3:57 pm Pine W, wrote: > The mailing list description says that the permitted types of announcements

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Introducing: Professional.Wiki

The mailing list description says that the permitted types of announcements are for "new versions, bug fixes, and security issues." Advertising of commercial services is not included. Granted, the description does not explicitly prohibit advertising. The absence of an explicit prohibition is not

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Introducing: Professional.Wiki

:55 PM To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [MediaWiki-l] Introducing: Professional.Wiki Hi, At the risk of starting an unnecessary argument, let me say that I think this kind of email is fine. Paid support is a form of help/support, so even though the mailing list

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Introducing: Professional.Wiki

Fwiw, Im of the opinion that its borderline but ok. I would be annoyed if there was subsequent advertisements for this service. Or if there were a lot of these types of messages on this list. But an initial announcement of a new wiki hosting service with wide applicability that is being run by

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Introducing: Professional.Wiki

Hi, At the risk of starting an unnecessary argument, let me say that I think this kind of email is fine. Paid support is a form of help/support, so even though the mailing list description doesn't specifically list consulting as one of the allowed topics, it seems to me that it fits within the

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Introducing: Professional.Wiki

This seems to me to be an advertisement for commercial services that was sent to a mailing list that is operated by a nonprofit and is intended for MediaWiki system administrators. The description if the mailing list is "This is a multilingual list for help/support with running/configuring

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Introducing: Professional.Wiki

Hello, Thank you for informing us of your service. However, the MediaWiki mailing list is NOT a free advertising platform (at least its not supposed to be), and therefore messages like this are considered spam and may or may not be accepted in the future. -- Amanda On Wednesday, May 8, 2019,

[MediaWiki-l] Introducing: Professional.Wiki

Hello everyone, We are happy to announce the launch of our new wiki company: Professional.Wiki . Professional.Wiki's mission is to provide customer-focused wiki services that are both holistic and of high quality. Because of our strong involvement in the MediaWiki