Last modified: 2013-08-28 18:14:27 UTC
A number of members of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Open_Access were at the yearly OA conference (and Wikimania) these weeks, and many attendees were interested in continuing discussion by email. This might be too specific and high-traffic for the cultural-partners list or libraries list (and with open membership & public archives). Is it OK? What would you need to create a new ml? The list would be used for all the OA related discussions, especially for the OA week (in October) and moreover in preparation of the OA track at Wikimania 2014. List admin: zanni.andrea84@gmail.com Thanks!
I support this proposal. We have enough people discussing things by email that having a dedicated mailing list to make our discussions public and archived would be useful and bring us closer in alignment to Wikimedia community precedent of being transparent. We also talk with a certain number of non-Wikipedian stakeholders, and for that reason we need an email list. I am <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Bluerasberry>, a Wikipedia user who is in good standing as an English Wikipedia editor.
The list should be called "open access" or some such thing. It would be international and we already have participants from 4 countries.
Apologies for the delay in getting back to you. So when you say "another" mailing list, does one already exist (or are you referring to another mailing list in general)? If the latter, then this seems like a reasonable request - do you have any preference for a list name (following the standardised naming scheme at <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Standardization#Naming_scheme>)? Lane would you also be happy to be a secondary list admin?
Hi Thehelpfulone. yes, is the latter: it was a joke, sorry if confused you a bit :-) Can "openaccess" be a good name?
Thehelpfulone, yes, I would be a secondary list admin. "Openaccess" would be my preferred choice for a name. This list is not associated with any geographical region and already has projects on multiple Wikipedias and Wikisources as well as Commons, Data, and Mediawiki, so I would not want the list tagged as being country or project specific either. Thanks.
Hi Andrea, no problem - we don't get many jokes over here on Bugzilla, mostly people ranting at developers for not doing things! :-) I've gone ahead and created the list with open subscription and public archives and will send you a separate email with the list admin password. List info page: <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/openaccess> Please could you add a list description, by editing <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/admin/openaccess/?VARHELP=general/info>?
