Thread:Talk:Mailing lists/Merge/reply (14)

HappyDog, I was hoping for some suggestions from you on how to resort stuff, but I did it on my own now: I split "MediaWiki and technical" in three. I've also changed the subject page here to link the first section directly: is it clearer now? I think it is, and it's a big improvement for the "general (non-WMF) public" compared to the previous situation, where the items of interest for it where inextricably mixed with mostly-Wikimedia or Wikimedia-only stuff.
 * 1) "MediaWiki" first, with lists "strictly suitable (also) for a general, non-Wikimedia-only audience", first those for a general/mixed audience, then "Code and bugs" for code geeks, then "Local". These are probably the most important lists also for wikimedians (API, i18n, wikitext... nobody cares about it more than wikimedians) but non-Wikimedians won't feel strangers.
 * 2) "Related software, tools and infrastructure" are useful for third parties too (especially dumps?), but in practice mostly used by and for Wikimedia projects.
 * 3) "General development and technical discussion", including the "Interest areas", are the lists dominated by wikimedian discussions. Here a non-Wikimedian can often feel out of place, but they often are the main development force for MediaWiki in general.