Wikipedia:Expert review/mailing lists

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On expert review, reviewers generally carry out discussion via private mailing lists (anybody can subscribe to them, but only reviewers and coordinators can post on them). This is done for three reasons:

• so that reviewers do not need to create an account on the English Wikipedia if they do not already have one;
• because mailing lists are a familiar medium to many experts, avoiding a whole new learning process; and
• because malicious and unhelpful participation is avoided.

Anybody can subscribe to any of the lists. Only reviewers and coordinators can post on the reviewers' mailing lists (which are not moderated), but anybody can post on the coordinators' mailing list (which is moderated).

[edit] Mailing lists

Mailing list	Description	Subscribe access	Post access	Moderated
enwp-expertreview-coordinators@lists.wikimedia.org	General mailing list for coordinators	All	All	Yes
enwp-expertreview-reviewers@lists.wikimedia.org	General mailing list for reviewers	All	Reviewers, coordinators	No
enwp-expertreview-reviewers-maths@lists.wikimedia.org	Mathematics mailing list for reviewers	All	Reviewers, coordinators	No
enwp-expertreview-reviewers-compsci@lists.wikimedia.org	Computer science mailing list for reviewers	All	Reviewers, coordinators	No
enwp-expertreview-reviewers-chemistry@lists.wikimedia.org	Chemistry mailing list for reviewers	All	Reviewers, coordinators	No
enwp-expertreview-reviewers-physics@lists.wikimedia.org	Physics mailing list for reviewers	All	Reviewers, coordinators	No