[WikiEN-l] Re: Corporate sponsorship of Wikipedia

Tue Jun 22 00:42:25 UTC 2004

Delirium wrote:
> Mark Pellegrini wrote:
> 
>> Note, Angela asked me emphatically to make sure you fight it out there 
>> and not on the mailing list.  
>>
> Ugh... it's nearly impossible to carry on a lengthy conversation on the 
> wiki.  Mailing lists are a lot better: I can organize subthreads, keep 
> posts I find particularly interesting for later reference and delete 
> others, and so on.  Can't do any of that on a wiki unless you make a 
> private copy of the discussion page and edit it yourself, and then keep 
> your copy in sync with the original, which is a gigantic mess.
> 
> -Mark

well, this is very unfortunate for you, because Angela and I will 
strongly favor use of multilingual meta over mailing lists.