https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43353
--- Comment #4 from Quim Gil <q...@wikimedia.org> --- I actually have a strong opinion for the formula mediawiki-COUNTRY. :) It relates to "MediaWiki Groups", a denomination that has been agreed with the AffCom: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Groups We want to keep these groups really local, e.g. to territories you can cover in a few hours to attend a meetup. We started discussing with Yuvi about this mailing list for India when I suggested it as an alternative to his proposal for "MediaWiki Group India", a precedent we don't want to create right now. A main purpose of these lists and groups is to reach out to new technical contributors of the MediaWiki community and the Wikimedia movement. "wikitech" only means something for a bunch of insiders like us. For the rest is a vague term e.g. "discussion about wiki technology". "MediaWiki" appears at the footer of every single Wikipedia page as "powered by": a more precise starting point. I can discuss further if you are still not convinced. :) About the creation of mediawiki-COUNTRY lists, I believe they are useful for the case of countries like India, with a huge territory and a lot of initial difficulties to have critical mass in a single place for a local MediaWiki group. The idea is that such list can help as a landing place for potential and actual technical contributors without any group in hundreds of km around. If the health of the list is good other contributors might show up and other cities might get that critical mass for a local group later on. Let me know if you need more background to make the right decision. Thanks! -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug. You are watching all bug changes. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list Wikibugs-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
