[Foundation-l] New list admin: Ral315

Sun Aug 17 04:51:24 UTC 2008

On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 7:18 PM, Michael Bimmler <mbimmler at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear all,
> please welcome with me User:Ral315 as new third list admin of
> foundation-l. He has volunteered to help, noting that there has been
> somewhat of a backlog in the moderation queue recently, and Austin and
> I are glad to accept his offer.
>
> You will most probably know Ral315 already well as current
> editor-in-chief of the Wikipedia Signpost, so I'll skip the extended
> introduction.
>
> Best wishes,
> Michael
> for the foundation-l list administrators<https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l>
>

I should say for the record that I have no intent to add or remove anyone
from moderation for quite a while; my offer to volunteer was strictly to
approve e-mails sitting in the moderation queue.  The only reason I offered
was that I noticed that a few e-mails were approved recently that had been
sent more than a week before, and I figured that was a sign that Michael and
Austin might have needed some help.  I hope and expect that my work on the
list is as mundane, non-controversial and invisible as possible.

As far as my list inactivity goes, I read the list on a daily basis, but
lately I've noticed that others tend to make my points for me, and are much
more articulate in expressing their views.  I think a lot of the "top
posters" add a significant amount to discussion and their posts are
worthwhile; for myself, I find that the more I post, the less I tend to say.

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[[User:Ral315]]