[Foundation-l] List Syndication Service reboot

Mon Nov 17 02:51:36 UTC 2008

Note: I keep calling this the List Syndication Service, but it's
actually the List *Summary* Service :) Syndicated summaries....

Just a note that I posted summaries of October's Foundation-L
archives, in two parts:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/LSS/foundation-l-archives

And did the last two weeks of wikien-L, while I was at it. Wiki-en was
harder, since discussions are a bit more diffuse, people don't seem to
change their subjects when the topic changes as often, and I haven't
been following it myself as closely. Let me know what you think,
though.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/LSS/wikiEN-l-archives/2008_11_01-15

This is probably as far back in the archives as I'll go, but I'll try
to keep up with it in future.
-- Phoebe

On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 12:14 AM, phoebe ayers <phoebe.wiki at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi ya'll,
>
> You may remember way that back in mid-2006 user:Improv started up the
> List Syndication Service:
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/LSS
>
> This was an ongoing weekly summary of the mailing lists, particularly
> Foundation-L. It was carried on for a good while by Improv and was
> then taken on by BirgetteSB, but was dropped in early 2007 and not
> picked back up.
>
> I always thought this was a great idea that should be continued. And
> so finally, I've taken a stab at recreating and rebooting LSS:
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/LSS/foundation-l-archives/2008_November_2-15
>
> This update covers from November 2-15 (two weeks, Sun. to Sat.) of
> Foundation-L. I've made some changes from previous summarizers:
> * summary by topic, not date; related threads grouped together
> * no attempt to read and distill the content of posts -- instead
> simply noting what topics were discussed. It was the heavy burden of
> reading and understanding all the (quite complex) threads on the lists
> that I believe led previous summarizers to burn out. For this summary,
> if you want to know more, you have to read the threads yourself.
>
> I hope that this will prove helpful in pointing out *what* was
> discussed, particularly for people who don't have time to read the
> whole list, even if the substance isn't there.
>
> I make no promises, but will attempt to keep up with foundation-l for
> a while. Suggestions, feedback, helpers, etc. all welcome.
>
> best,
> -- phoebe
>
>
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