[Advocacy Advisors] Renaming this list

Fri Aug 7 21:44:45 UTC 2015

Makes sense to me.

On Fri, 7 Aug 2015 at 22:04 Karl Sigfrid <karl at wikimedia.be> wrote:

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> I think the renaming makes good sense. "Public policy" is the standard
> label for the category in which the issues here belong.
>
> Karl
>
>
> Den 8/7/2015 kl. 10:42 PM, skrev Stephen LaPorte:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I wanted to make a proposal for the list: let's rename the Advocacy
> Advisory Group (advocacy_advisors at lists.wikimedia.org) to
> publicpolicy at lists.wikimedia.org. It's not a big change, but I think that
> it's more accurate since the list includes expert discussions of public
> policy that are not always limited to advocacy actions.
>
> The proposal will only affect the name -- we will continue to keep the
> same focus and great discussions. We set up this mailing list nearly three
> years ago to provide an open venue for Wikimedians and others supporting
> the Wikimedia mission to discuss public policy and legislative developments
> around the world that could affect our movement's work. The Wikimedia
> Foundation also sends proposals to this list to get feedback on particular
> policy issues, following the Wikimedia Foundation Policy and Political
> Association Guideline (
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Legal/Foundation_Policy_and_Political_Association_Guideline).
> I've enjoyed all of the great discussions with the Wikimedia community, and
> particularly appreciate the great updates from the EU prepared by Dimi and
> others.
>
> If there are no concerns about changing the name, we can set it up next
> Friday (August 14). We will update the Policy and Political Association
> Guideline to continue to refer to this list.
>
> As Yana, Geoff, and I presented at Wikimania (
> https://wikimania2015.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Amplify_Free_Knowledge_with_Public_Policy),
> we are also working on a site communicating significant public policy
> positions. That site will also invite people to sign up to this list to
> discuss public policy issues that affect the Wikimedia projects.
>
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