Hi Andre, I think that whether these threads are welcome by Wikitech-l subscribers in general is a reasonable question, although I disagree with a number of elements of your description of these threads. I took a somewhat bold step in February 2018 of expanding the posting of these threads from Wikimedia-l to both Wikimedia-l and Wikitech-l, and I expressed a willingness to listen to objections; see https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2018-February/089495.html. At that time, no one objected.
Of the occasional feedback that I have received in public (more on Wikimedia-l than Wikitech-l) and private, 100% has been positive until now. However, I recognize that people's opinions may change over time. If a consensus emerges from Wikitech-l subscribers that these threads are not currently welcome on Wikitech-l then I will respect that and I will stop cross-posting the threads to Wikitech-l. However, if no such consensus emerges, then I suggest that you ignore these threads in the future. The purpose of these emails is certainly not to annoy people, and I regret if people find them to be more annoying than interesting, useful, or encouraging. I hope that people will contribute their own posts to these threads in response to the prompt, "What’s making you happy this week? You are welcome to comment in any language." Also, I would be happy to see a new person start these threads each week, and to see multiple people contribute their thoughts each week. However, if a new consensus emerges in against having these threads on Wikitech-l, then I will abide by that consensus. Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine ) On Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at 11:45 AM Andre Klapper <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, 2019-06-19 at 07:17 +0000, Pine W wrote: > > While browsing Japanese Wikipedia, I found this > > As "What's making you happy this week" messages seem to contain no > questions, no expected interaction or followup on specific technical > topics, no announcements about specific technical topics, and often no > connection to the technical scope of wikitech-l@ (in the previous > message, 1 out of 4 items covered a technical aspect), but seem to be a > random link list of collected personal interest items: > Has it been considered to post such messages to a personal blog (or > such) instead, which might be a more suitable venue? > > andre > -- > Andre Klapper | Bugwrangler / Developer Advocate > https://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
