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Request for new list COVID-19-stats
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Description

  • Requested name of the mailing list (ending in @lists.wikimedia.org): COVID-19-stats@lists.wikimedia.org
  • Reasoning/explanation of purpose: This list is intended to allow Google, the Wikimedia Foundation, and members of the community working on COVID-19-related content to coordinate and communicate about COVID-19 statistics on Wikipedia, which Google is using in a COVID "stats card" feature. Google will share weekly insights on popular search queries and other data that may be of interest to the community in creating/maintaining COVID-related content, as well as continue to update the community about what pages and data it is surfacing in Google search.
  • Initial list administrator's email address: mpinchuk@wikimedia.org
  • Secondary list administrator's email address: nikreddy@google.com

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Restricted Application added a subscriber: Aklapper. · View Herald Transcript
jcrespo triaged this task as High priority.

The list has been created, with no initial subscribers: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/covid-19-stats List options are by default (including public listing and public archives), except subscription, which has been set as "requires approval" initially under privacy options. As administrators, you will be able to change further options.

Because the specificity of this list, I have not added it yet to https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Overview but feel free to do it yourself for diffusion.

Aklapper renamed this task from Request for new list to Request for new list COVID-19-stats.Apr 3 2020, 10:00 AM