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 ___________________ Philippe Beaudette Director, Community Advocacy Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. 415-839-6885, x 6643 phili...@wikimedia.org On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 12:41 PM, Jan-Bart de Vreede < jdevre...@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.p...@wikimedia.org.uk> > wrote: > > > > > On 19 Feb 2013, at 19:57, Thehelpfulone <thehelpfulonew...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > >> On 19 February 2013 16:10, Ziko van Dijk <vand...@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) > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimedia-l mailing list > > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l