[Foundation-l] Re: new project mailing lists

Mon Nov 21 09:22:43 UTC 2005

On 11/20/05, Aphaia <aphaia at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Support Delirium's idea and I concur with Sj.
>
> On 11/17/05, SJ <2.718281828 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 11/14/05, Delirium <delirium at hackish.org> wrote:
> >
> > > Would it be useful to separate discussion of new projects (incl.
> > > languages) to a separate mailing list? It's currently taking a
> >
> > I would like that. In fact, I would go so far as to say that
> > proliferation of mailing lists is a positive thing, when done the
> > right way... but that we do not currently do it the right way.
> > the whole community should take part in..
> >
> > > disproportionate amount of general mailing list traffic (particularly
> > > wikipedia-l and foundation-l), so discussion of improving existing
> > > Wikipedias tends to get lost in the mess. It's also a frequently
> >
> > Right. It would be useful to have a new- and minority-languages list.
>
> >From my impression through discussions and testwiki activities on meta,
> perhaps it is fruitful to separate general new project proposals and
> new language wikis.
> The former proposers might be interested in the latter, but not vice
> versa assumedly.
>
>
>
> --
> Aphaea@*.wikipedia.org
>

Hoi,
When the new project proposals and new language requests are done in a
seperate mailing list, this mailing list will not have a representative
population of the Wikimedia crowd. The discussions, even when interesting,
will not lead to a consensus that is representative. This in turn will lead
to a consensus brought as what is to be done which will be angrily denied to
be a consensus by those who were not aware of what was going on.

All the overly much huha about new languages needs its place. If there is
one thing wrong is that too little is said about other things. This is not
remedied by removing this not ununimportant subject from the mailing lists.

Thanks,
GerardM