[writing at personal capacity.] On Sun, Feb 18, 2018 at 2:55 PM, Joseph Seddon <jsed...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> The question is, does it need a successor? > Whether mailing list is a good option for the kind of discussions we have in wikimedia-l is not clear to me, however, the list is serving some purposes and we need to make decisions about how those purposes will be served if the list is removed. On a personal and professional level, this list has helped me: * find a social side to Wikimedia: When I joined WMF as a staff member four years ago, I pretty much knew no one. Keeping an eye on this list has helped me over the years to find a base beyond WMF staff that I know and I can have volunteer, staff, or personal relations with. This is invaluable. :) * learn about Wikimedia's governance: again, for a newcomer like myself, it was invaluable to be exposed to many different voices, opinions, backgrounds, perspectives, etc. in one place. * learn about the different projects going on around the Movement. * find people who are interested to work with me in the research projects I do at staff time. This being said, I'm all for rethinking how we as a Movement communicate, for what purpose, and what kind of technologies can help us do that more efficiently and effectively. Leila > > Seddon > > > On Sun, Feb 18, 2018 at 10:42 PM, Pine W <wiki.p...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > For some time there have been periodic mentions of the idea of moving > > Wikimedia-l to Discourse. [0] > > > > I am considering establishing a Discourse installation myself and > offering > > it to host Wikimedia-l or its successor, which in addition to potential > > usability improvements from Discourse would have the added benefit that > it > > would not be hosted on a WMF server and therefore would be somewhat > > insulated from governance controversies at WMF such as we have > experienced > > in the past and such as the one recently experienced by WMFR. However, I > am > > concerned that I would be unable to provide sufficient legal protections > > for the privacy of the list and its members, so I have not initiated this > > project. > > > > I think that a good first order of business would be for someone to close > > the existing RfC on Meta. After that RfC is closed I think that we should > > have further discussions about how we might like to continue to adjust > our > > communications on Wikimedia-l or its successor. > > > > I am currently limiting myself to approximately 15 posts per month until > > the RfC is closed. > > > > Pine > > ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine ) > > > > [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discourse_(software) > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > > wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > > wiki/Wikimedia-l > > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > > > > > > -- > Seddon > > *Community and Audience Engagement Associate* > *Advancement (Fundraising), Wikimedia Foundation* > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
