From: Toby Bartels
The Cunctator wrote for the most part:
Don't blame the participants--blame the flawed
interface of using
multiple mailing lists for discussing Wikipedia issues.
Do you mean that it would be better for the French speakers
to look through all posts now on wikiEN-L /and/ wikipedia-L
to search for matters relevant to all Wikipedias?
Having general material appear on wikiEN-L from time to time,
and [[en:]]-specific material appear on wikipedia-L occasionally,
seems easier to deal with than always having to check everything.
Not really; I mean primarily that mailing lists are a flawed interface
(a point I've made since the beginning).
Since matters discussed on Wiki-EN are not always exclusive to wiki-en,
to effectively keep up with the tendencies and mores of Wikipedia one
*does* have to troll through wikien-l to really know what's going on.
For example, right now on wiki-en we're hashing out deletion policies,
policies for banning people, policies for nomenclature for Catholic
saints, etc., all of which are relevant to all the Wikipedias.
Unless our goal is to have completely culturally distinct projects with
minimal commonality of methods and purpose.
In which case we're doing the right thing.