I personally think these threads are fine (within reason) if they are thankful about technical things and/or stuff connected to mediawiki. Generic things about the wikimedia movement should stay on wikimedia-l; we have multiple mailing lists with different scopes for a reason. In that light, I consider the majority of your posts on this topic to be offtopic.
I would prefer that subject lines stay english. People use subject lines to sort their mail into whats interesting to them. Random language subjects interfere with that. On Wednesday, June 19, 2019, Pine W <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
