Last modified: 2009-05-29 15:54:55 UTC
Hi there, some weeks ago I tried to find out what to do to create a new mailing list. Therefore I visited http://lists.wikimedia.org/ and got redirected to http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/overview . The page doesn't say a word on how to create new lists. Some time later, I tried it with http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists and found the information I needed. Why doesn't lists.wm.org redirect directly to http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists ? I also tried https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo and emailed mailman@lists.wikimedia.org but didn't get any response as well. Is this address monitored at all? Best regards, Flo
(In reply to comment #0) > some weeks ago I tried to find out what to do to create a new mailing list. For future reference: create a bug here (bugzilla) in the Mailing lists component, assigned to Cary. Direct link: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Wikimedia&component=Mailing+lists&assigned_to=cbass@wikimedia.org Things to include * requested list name * reasoning/explanation of purpose (and community consensus, if applicable) * initial list admin address > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists and found the information I > needed. That information is actually incorrect, I'll update it with the information I gave you above. > Why doesn't lists.wm.org redirect directly to > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists ? I agree it should be redirected there. > I also tried https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo and emailed > mailman@lists.wikimedia.org but didn't get any response as well. Is this > address monitored at all? > That's actually a mailing list too: <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman>, I'm not sure if it's monitored (but it probably gets a lot of spam ;-)).
Honestly I think I'd rather have lists.wikimedia.org redirect straight to https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo which has the distinct advantage of actually being current at all times. :) I believe the header text can be edited, so we could add a link to the meta pages.
That could work too, would probably be better. :-)
Fred, can you take a peek at this sometime? Should be something on the order of: 1) Update the header text for the listinfo page to include a link to http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists . 2) Update the Apache config for lists.wikimedia.org to change the redirect for the root page to point at https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo Thanks!
Completed. Step 2 was straightforward (albeit using lighthttpd instead of Apache). Step 1 was more tricky and required a change in /var/lib/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/listinfo.py (it took me forever to find this!) Anyway, you should be all set!
