This is mostly a solution looking for a problem. On Thursday, March 29, 2012, Petr Bena wrote:
> I don't see a reason why it shouldn't look "official" > > We are open source project not a part of government or something. So > [email protected] <javascript:;> should be perfectly ok for > established users, > who wouldn't abuse it just as sysop bit is. Also why not just let user > pick which domain they like? > > On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 11:38 PM, Krinkle > <[email protected]<javascript:;>> > wrote: > > Excuse me but it seems this seems to avoid the actual problem. > > > > Although I know the answer for the most part, the question I think we > should be > > asking is more along the lines of "Why are they using email > > instead of on-wiki discussion threads?" > > > > I personally don't see a lot of gain in providing mailaliases for users. > > > > @wikipedia.org seems too Wikipeida specific and may indeed look too > official. > > @something.wikipedia.org may not scale either because we also have > projects on > > other hostnames (wiktionary, wikibooks, but also species, commons, meta > and > > other *.wikimedia.org wikis). > > > > Also, when we do find a good hostname to use, I think it should be > universal and > > tied to a SUL username (not per-wiki or per-project), so it shouldn't > contain > > the name of a project (wikipedia, wiktionary, commons, ..) and not the > name of > > the software (mediawiki). Something like "users.wikimedia.org" might be > > appropriate. > > > > If that is done though, would it be an alias (forward) address or would > it allow > > sending (IMAP/POP3). The latter would probably also cost a significant > amount of > > storage over time, so alias/forward is probably better. > > > > However that means that after you reply, your original e-mailaddress is > visible. > > In which case there is no advantage to using an alias over simply using > > [[Special:EmailUser]], which is effectively also an alias for the first > mail. > > > > -- Krinkle > > > > On Mar 29, 2012, at 9:41 PM, Petr Bena wrote: > > > >> Hi, > >> > >> Lot of volunteers are using email to communicate when they discuss > >> wikimedia related issues. Even if it's not a big problem to use > >> personal email there, lot of people, especially administrators do not > >> want to uncover their personal email. Lot of them even have a special > >> private mail for wikipedia purposes. Although wikimedia has own email > >> server on wikimedia domain, it's being given to paid staff only, so > >> question is if it would be worth of having an email service for > >> volunteers who request it (it should be probably limited to users who > >> match some criteria) or just a forward service which can help us to > >> get our personal email hidden (this would not eat space and would be > >> very cheap). I understand that people from foundation might have > >> concerns that volunteers with wikimedia.org emails could cause some > >> troubles or people might be in thought they are employees, so why not > >> to use some another domain, like wmflabs.org for developers and > >> wikipedia.org for wikipedians for example (other domains for > >> respective projects). What do you think? > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Wikitech-l mailing list > >> [email protected] <javascript:;> > >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikitech-l mailing list > > [email protected] <javascript:;> > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] <javascript:;> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > -- Sent from my iPad _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
