[Foundation-l] announce-l and "Wikizine"?

Thu Jan 26 10:24:27 UTC 2006

On 1/24/06, Brion Vibber <brion at pobox.com> wrote:
>
> It seems a couple folks took over the abandoned announce-l mailing list a
> couple
> months ago, sending community updates branded as "Wikizine" on it. The
> domain
> name wikizine.org is being used to redirect to the list subscription page,
> and
> some links & an email address at that domain are used.
>
> http://wikizine.org/
> http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/announce-l
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikizine

well, walter had the idea of launching a wikizine on announce-l, i supported
the idea and asked elian for permission. she changed the list-owners to the
current situation fyi.

grtz, oscar

Now, having some actual Wikimedia info on a mailing list is pretty cool. :)
> But
> I've got a couple organizational questions I want to toss out to the
> broader
> community:
>
> * It looks like Walter Vermeir owns this wikizine.org domain himself.
> What's the
> status of it? If Walter loses interest will it continue? Who'll be
> responsible
> for renewing it?
>
> * I received a request to make a mailing list for a Romanian-language
> Wikizine.
> Are we going to add more such lists, and if so should we do so under the
> 'announce' name set or 'wikizine'?
>
> * Some 'marketing' ;) This has been going on for two or three months and I
> never
> noticed. Was I just asleep at the wheel, or are a lot of people missing
> out who
> might be interested?
>
> -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
>
>
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