Wikidata:Property proposal/Mailing List

mailing list archive

Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Generic

   Done: mailing list archive URL (P8934) (Talk and documentation)

Description	archive of the mailing list for the object
Represents	electronic mailing list (Q304863)
Data type	URL
Allowed values	https?:.+
Allowed units	several
Example 1	GNU Emacs (Q1252773) → https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/
Example 2	OpenBSD (Q34215) → https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-announce
Example 3	April (Q2858967) → https://listes.april.org/wws/arc/april-actu/
Example 4	Gretl (Q292952) → https://gretlml.univpm.it/hyperkitty/list/gretl-devel@gretlml.univpm.it/
Example 5	Tcl (Q5288) → https://sourceforge.net/p/tcl/mailman/tcl-bugs/
Example 6	mu4e (Q91904395) → https://groups.google.com/g/mu-discuss
Example 7	LibrePlanet (Q3237923) → https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libreplanet-discuss/
Example 8	GNU Mailman project (Q937466) → https://mail.python.org/archives/list/mailman-announce@python.org/
Example 9	Sympa (Q1850168) → https://listes.renater.fr/sympa/arc/sympa-announce/
Example 10	Wireshark (Q403539) → https://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-announce/
Example 11	StumpWM (Q1129837) → https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/stumpwm-devel/
Example 12	Wikimedia Foundation (Q180) → https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/daily-article-l/
Example 13	Wikimedia Foundation (Q180) → https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/
Source	from official websites
Planned use	if available
Expected completeness	always incomplete (Q21873886)
Formatter URL	https://$1

Motivation

Resource used by most IT projects and more. Different from forums, bulletin and newsletter links, marketing spam… Genium. 14:50, Nov 29, 2020 (UTC+02:00)

Discussion

• In Fantasdic (Q12270661), we use email address (P968) directly on items. However, each mailing list may be an item as usually it contains an official website (P856) and an email address (P968).--GZWDer (talk) 17:04, 29 November 2020 (UTC)

Indeed, a mailing list can be known via its email address, I hadn't thought about it. Note, however, that both are available on the resource tab of the Free Software Directory… Genium. 20:52, Nov 29, 2020 (UTC+02:00)

•  Support I think this makes sense. email address (P968) could be a qualifier on this I guess, or we could have a separate property specifically for mailing list emails? I don't think we need to create separate items for mailing lists... ArthurPSmith (talk) 14:48, 30 November 2020 (UTC)
•  Comment I like the idea but I agree with ArthurPSmith, often there are dozens to hundreds of lists for each project. It may sometimes make more sense to link to "listinfo", eg https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo -- maybe we should allow both? Link to a specific list or to a listinfo? --~~

I don't know, but on the Free Software Directory, we have a drop-down list with three choices ("Mailing List", "Mailing List Subscribe", "Mailing List Info/Archive", and another one for E-mail. But if I understand correctly, "subscribe" and "listinfo" are the same most of the time. I think that the Archives link is more important for History… Genium. 20:07, Dec 3, 2020 (UTC+02:00)

•  Support: could be useful, I guess. Nomen ad hoc (talk) 16:26, 1 December 2020 (UTC).
•  Support --Tinker Bell ★ ♥ 23:31, 4 December 2020 (UTC)
• @Genium, GZWDer, ArthurPSmith, Nomen ad hoc:  Done --Tinker Bell ★ ♥ 02:57, 8 December 2020 (UTC)