[Foundation-l] Wikimedia meeting today

Sat Aug 27 22:35:23 UTC 2005

On 8/27/05, Dan Grey <dangrey at gmail.com> wrote:

> Really? They're not saying much though, are they? The August archive:
> http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikinews-l/2005-August/thread.html#298
> About a third of mails are people trying to unsubscribe. That says a lot!

The August archives aren't going to tell you very much since a lot of
the archive (along with the ability to unsubscribe) was lost earlier
this month due to server problems.

> > > It has near-zero
> > > traffic as we're still small enough for *all* discussion to be kept on
> > > the wiki.
> >
> > On which wiki?
> 
> You know exactly which one I mean.

No, I didn't. I was discussing international Wikinews issues, and was
assuming you were not serious about saying all discussion of those
should be on the English Wikinews!

> > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikinews/License
> > It was circulated on the mailing list. [...]
> 
> As you can see, it was never mentioned. 

That's completely untrue. The page was advertised on the Wikinews
mailing list as the following extract shows:

On 8/10/05, Erik Moeller wrote on wikinews-l:

> So, what do we do next? I have started a new page at
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikinews/License
> which collects the licensing options and the main arguments I could
> think of. I invite you to add arguments to this page. Perhaps we can
> find a clear consensus for one option, but if we cannot, we will
> probably have to resort to a vote to finalize the decision.

Angela.