I think it makes sense. I would especially appreciate the archiving aspect of the Space.
On Fri, 1 Nov 2019 at 04:56, Nichole Saad <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > We’ve received an interesting proposal that we want to run by you. The team > working on Wikimedia Space <https://space.wmflabs.org/> wants to start > experimenting with mirroring mailing lists as a way to unify and improve > movement communication. They have reached out to us about the possibility > of mirroring this mailing list in Space. While an experiment like this > seems to make sense to the admins of this list, we wanted to run the idea > by you first. > > Concretely, this would mean that: > > > - > > We would create an Education list subcategory in Discuss Space, and any > emails sent to the mailing list would appear there as well. > - > > It would function like a web archive: users are able to read but no > reply or start new topics. For that, they would need to use the mailing > list exactly as it is done today. For the mailing list subscribers > everything would stay the same. > - > > The topics mirrored in Space would appear in the Latest list on the > Discuss main page and in the search results. > - > > Users can tag topics and "like" comments. If a subscriber of the mailing > list is registered in Space with the same email address, they will earn > the > "likes" to their messages and this will help them build their trust in > Space, without doing anything extra. > > > If you want to read about how this experiment fits into the larger picture > of the development of movement communications, they’ve released a short > blog post about the future of mailing lists and Wikimedia Space > < > https://discuss-space.wmflabs.org/t/testing-the-path-from-mailing-lists-to-wikimedia-space/1934 > >. > But again, for now this is just an experiment that we can start and stop at > any time. > > What do you all think? Are you interested in taking part in this > experiment? > > Best, > > Nichole > > > -- > *Nichole Saad* > Wikimedia Foundation | Senior Program Manager, Education > [email protected] > user: NSaad (WMF) > _______________________________________________ > Education mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education > _______________________________________________ Education mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education
