We're waiting on a reply from the WMF, as it's their list, not the chapters. We asked them to delete a couple of posts before everything goes fully open. No response from them yet, but once the WMF deletes those posts, we can move forward :-)
Richard Symonds, Wikimedia UK On Jul 27, 2012 5:08 AM, "John Vandenberg" <jay...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 10:23 AM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dal...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > On 27 July 2012 01:21, John Vandenberg <jay...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> It isn't public. The software considers it private. Emails to the > >> list can be claimed to have been sent under the assumption that it > >> isn't going to be published on the web. > > > > Who cares what the software thinks? Anyone can subscribe and get > > instant access. It's public > > > >> This was previously discussed in thread "List archives" from March 29 > >> to April 11 > > > > I suggest you take a look at who started that thread... > > I'm more interested in why, three and a half months later, the list is > still private? > > And when this will be rectified? > > Andrew Turvey quit as list admin on 31 May, according to thread > 'Listadmin wanted for wikimediauk-l', making the list admins David > Gerard, James Forrester, Mike Peel and Richard Symonds. > > thehelpfulone replaced Andrew Turvey as list admin. > > Between 31 May and today, Mike Peel has also stopped being a list admin. > > The list admins are currently James Forrester, David Gerard, Richard > Symonds and thehelpfulonewiki. At least one of them hold a full time > position to tackle tasks that benefit the UK chapter, and I think that > fixing the private status of this list should be considered one of > them. > > -- > John Vandenberg > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia UK mailing list > wikimediau...@wikimedia.org > http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org >
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