Re: [Wikimedia-l] PLEASE ASK PERMISSION BEFORE ADDING PEOPLE O YOUR LIST! [WAS: Could someone please tell me why I have been subscribed to this list?]

I think there are important considerations at hand here

On Jan 11, 2015 5:02 AM, "Rui Correia" <correia.rui@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Toby

Thanks for providing an explanation of the reasons for creating the
list. By the way, despite your efforts, I still have no idea what the
list does.

However, what I asked for was an explanation of WHY I came to be added
to your list.

I opened the link that you provided and read that "A number of members
of WikiProject_Open_Access were at the yearly OA conference (and
Wikimania) these weeks, and many attendees were interested in
continuing discussion by email." The idea was supported by roughly
three of four people. Hardly a mandate!

Then either through lack of creativity or to pose as an existing list
you use an existing name (wikimedia-l)!

Then to add injury to insult, you use an old unrelated email to send
out your notification about users being added to this list. There is
nothing I hate more than people too lazy to create a new email, who
open old emails to send out new unrelated information. It is
unprofessional. It is immature.

PLEASE REMOVE MY ADDRESS IMMEDIATELY. I suggest that in future you ask
people for permission before adding them to your lists or - even
better - announce on an existing list the of the new list with the
necessary information for sign-up for those who want to do so -
VOLUNTARILY!

Regards,

Rui

2015-01-11 12:42 GMT+02:00 Toby Dollmann <toby.dollmann@gmail.com>:
> Dear Rui
>
> I would be happy to explain.
> Please see this link  https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T55216
>
> "We have enough people discussing things by email that having a
> dedicated mailing list to make our discussions public and archived
> would be useful and bring us closer in alignment to Wikimedia
> community precedent of being transparent.
>
> We also talk with a certain number of non-Wikipedian stakeholders, and
> for that reason we need an email list."
>
> So this is that kind of Open Access list for Wikipedia editors.
>
> Toby
>

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