Good catch

On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 4:18 AM, Mark Clements (HappyDog) <
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>
> "Domas Mituzas" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
> > >
> >> You know, wikitech-l is for MediaWiki development discussion as well,
> >> not just site operations.  mediawiki-l is only for MediaWiki support,
> >> not for all MediaWiki discussion.
> >
> > It is for wikimedia's mediawiki development - all our wikis surely
> > need lots of that. But when it comes to:
> > "when all you use is MediaWiki, then you're on your own "
> > I'm not suggesting that you're on your own, I'm suggesting nice people
> > on mediawiki-l.
> >
> > Oh, and those problems, they definitely sound like support questions.
> >
> > If you feel there is no arena to "discuss" general mediawiki rather
> > than "support", we may assist you with communications infrastructure
> > for that.
> >
> > You know, foundation-l should be also used for mediawiki discussion
> > (oh, sometimes it is), still, mediawiki, wikimedia, what the diff?
> >
> >>  At least, that's what I've always
> >> been told, and Meta agrees:
> >>
> >> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/overview
> >
> >
> > It is a wiki!
> >
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mailing_lists%2Foverview&diff=1453292&oldid=1451346
> >  ;-)
>
> That doesn't seem right to me, and it completely contradicts my
> expectations
> and the reason I've been using this list for the past however many years:
>
> My understanding:
> * mediawiki-l - support
> * wikitech-l - development
>
> That seems like a much clearer and more sensible division than:
> * mediawiki-l - development
> * wikitech-l - development but only if it's relevant to Wikimedia
>
> You're right - it is a wiki.... which is why I trust the information that's
> been there since 2006, rather than the information that was added this
> morning.
>
> - Mark Clements (HappyDog)
>
>
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