Hi @Exec8, thanks for taking the time to report this and welcome to Wikimedia Phabricator!
Please see https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists#Create_a_new_list for required information (email address, co-admin).

My email is mohdtaufikrosman@gmail.com.

You can make me a co-admin/ secondary admin. My email address is xxxxxx.

Hello, i'll take this since i'm on rotating clinic duty this week.

Would it be ok with you if we simply create a new list with a new admin?

Since it's been inactive since 2012 i don't think we would need to add any redirects of the listinfo page or things like that.

That would also make a couple other things easier than an actual rename of an existing list.

It will be ok. The old list will then must be deactivated to avoid public confusion having two mailing lists. If name "WikimediaMY" can't be reused, "Wikimedia_Malaysia" will be used instead.

Alright. If you look at https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo and scroll down you'll see the standard (which hasn't always existed) moved to Wikimedia-<country> with the "-" in it. So i think the easiest way forward that is actually correct is we make "Wikimedia-MY". The old one will be closed (but not redirect) and archives will start from scratch.

regarding archives: There are literally 2 messages. And only one of them was written by a human and never got a reply.

https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediamy/

So we don't need to worry about that either way.

We could copy https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediamy/2012-February/000000.html over to this ticket because that might still be a relevant question waiting for an answer though.

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2020-01-06T23:12:27Z] <mutante> mailman - running /usr/local/sbin/rename_list wikimediamy wikimedia-my (T241988)

Change 562384 had a related patch set uploaded (by Dzahn; owner: Dzahn):
[operations/puppet@production] exim: add listserver_alias for renamed list wikimediamy

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/562384

Change 562384 merged by Dzahn:
[operations/puppet@production] exim: add listserver_alias for renamed list wikimediamy

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/562384

Change 562386 had a related patch set uploaded (by Dzahn; owner: Dzahn):
[operations/puppet@production] mailman: add http redirect for renamed listinfo page of wikimediamy

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/562386

Change 562386 merged by Dzahn:
[operations/puppet@production] mailman: add http redirect for renamed listinfo page of wikimediamy

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/562386

Hi again @Exec8, @Taufik,

despite what i said earlier i did a proper rename.

• wikimediamy has been renamed to wikimedia-my
• the archives and subscriber list still exist (https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-my/)
• the 2 of you have been added to admins (previous admin still in it to be CCed)
• after running the rename script and adding you as admins i ran the password reset command again so you should have received another email and the newest one has the password you can use to login
• mail to the old list address should be forwarded in exim to the new list
• list info page https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediamy gets redirected to https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-my
• https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo shows "wikimedia-my" with new description "Wikimedia Malaysia Community" as requested
• all other settings are unchanged from the old list and up to you now

There are still issues:

1. I checked the roster of mailing lists and I noticed that this one (wikimedia-my) is the only with lowercase "w" for the word "wikimedia". Please change to use uppercase "W"

2. The wikimedia-my has text pointing to the old list

WikimediaMY list run by wikimediamy-owner at lists.wikimedia.org
WikimediaMY administrative interface (requires authorization)
Overview of all lists.wikimedia.org mailing lists

3. Admin page new mailing list https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/admin/wikimedia-my has text showing a different admin email address: "koalascott2"

wikimedia-my list run by koalascott2 at gmail.com
wikimedia-my administrative interface (requires authorization)
Overview of all lists.wikimedia.org mailing lists

4. I have not received the mailing list admin password.

5. I received admin notification for the old mailing list "WikimediaMY" but not the new mailing list "wikimedia-my"

6. Admin page of the old mailing list https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/admin/wikimediamy has text showing a different admin email address "koalascott2" and our email address.

WikimediaMY list run by koalascott2 at gmail.com, mohdtaufikrosman at gmail.com, bustrias at gmail.com
WikimediaMY administrative interface (requires authorization)
Overview of all lists.wikimedia.org mailing lists

7. The mailing list page still has the title "Wikimedia Malaysia Chapter"

Please let us know if we will use the same thread or if we will need to raise it as a new task request.

In T241988#5781080, @Exec8 wrote:

There are still issues:

1. I checked the roster of mailing lists and I noticed that this one (wikimedia-my) is the only with lowercase "w" for the word "wikimedia". Please change to use uppercase "W"

Fixed. (In the web admin interface of the new list, you can change the case yourself as you like once you have access).

2. The wikimedia-my has text pointing to the old list

Fixed. (In the web admin interface of the new list, you can change all the HTML of those pages as you like once you have access).

3. Admin page new mailing list https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/admin/wikimedia-my has text showing a different admin email address: "koalascott2"

Fixed. Added the 2 new admins.

4. I have not received the mailing list admin password.

You should have received it now.

5. I received admin notification for the old mailing list "WikimediaMY" but not the new mailing list "wikimedia-my"

Fixed. Removed you as admin from old list.. added on NEW list.

Admin page of the old mailing list https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/admin/wikimediamy has text showing a different admin email address "koalascott2" and our email address.

This was on purpose to inform the old admin of the changes if he is still around and receiving mail by any chance.

7. The mailing list page still has the title "Wikimedia Malaysia Chapter"

Fixed. It was changed only in old list by accident.

Please let us know if we will use the same thread or if we will need to raise it as a new task request.

No new ticket needed. This is fine, it's still part of the request.