thanks, Ryan so this seems clear now: there may be different kinds of difficulties in a list creation process and all of these are now solved as regards the new lgbt list, is that it?
cheers Claudia On Mon, 02 Jul 2012 10:51:57 -0700, Ryan Kaldari wrote > Just to clarify, Phillipe expressed concern that there were only 4 > people listed as potential participants. The main objection was from > MZMcBride (who is not associated with the WMF), who expressed concern > that the list would be used for POV-pushing. Subsequently, Sébastien > Santoro and two WMF staff members offered to help moderate the list to > insure it would be neutral, and Varnent clarified that there were > several other people interested in the list. Phillipe withdrew his > objection and the list was created forthwith. Of course since this all > transpired over Bugzilla, it took a week to play out, which is longer > than normal, but I'm not sure it's fair to say that it was "difficult to > bring WF to allow the list to be created". > > Ryan Kaldari > > On 7/1/12 10:24 PM, [email protected] wrote: > > Hi Tom, hi @all > > > >> Wikimedia have decided to allow the list to be created > > since we are addressing not only one gender gap but, seemingly quite a few, > > including those that come alonf > > the lines of what has come to be called sexual orientarion, I have a > > question about the creation process of > > the new list. I recently heard elsewhere that > > > > it was difficult to bring WF to "allow" the list to be created in the frame > > of lists.wikimedia.org? > > how come? > > > > thanks > > Claudia > > > > On Mon, 2 Jul 2012 00:09:19 +0100, Tom Morris wrote > >> On Sunday, 1 July 2012 at 22:30, Tom Morris wrote: > >>> I'm happy to announce that a new Wikimedia LGBT mailing list has been > >>> setup. For the time being, it is > > being hosted on lists.wikiqueer.org (http://lists.wikiqueer.org). > >>> http://lists.wikiqueer.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-lgbt > >>> > >>> The list is for discussion of possible future LGBT outreach and > >>> partnership work, increasing the coverage > > of LGBT history, issues and culture, and any other issues that specifically > > affect LGBT editors. > >>> You don't have to be lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender to join. > >> A barely discernible amount of time after Gregory launched it on the > >> WikiQueer servers, Wikimedia have decided to allow the list to be created > >> on lists.wikimedia.org instead. > >> > >> Please feel free to join here instead: > >> > >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/lgbt > >> > >> Sorry about the confusion. > >> > >> -- > >> Tom Morris > >> <http://tommorris.org/> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Gendergap mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap > > > > thanks & cheers, > > Claudia > > [email protected] > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Gendergap mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap thanks & cheers, Claudia [email protected] _______________________________________________ Gendergap mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
