On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 1:04 AM, quiddity <pandiculat...@gmail.com> wrote: > 1. Given that the majority of Wikipedians are not subscribed to this > mailing list (or at least don't post to it), having decisive > discussions here is not very practical.
I would think that fewer participants would make decisive discussions easier. > The mailing lists are good for > brainstorming, alerting, and sharing, (etc), amongst the small number > of participants; they are not good for establishing a consensus on the > "nature of Wikipedia". Sorry, I couldn't resist plagiarizing Jimmy Wales and his widely ignored principles from his user page. > 2. Given that you infrequently participate on-wiki,* and your historic > reticence to even communicate on-wiki,** I'm not surprised by this > suggestion. Yes, I find wiki talk pages to be a terrible form of communication. There's no push notification, no decent threading, post-hoc censorship, a requirement to release everything you write under CC-BY-SA, etc. And the silly memes regarding Wikipedia talk pages don't even allow people to utilize the benefits of a wiki - non-signed content, modification of content, multi-person collaboration on a single paragraph. Wikis make sense for collaboration, but not for communication. ~~~ and ~~~~ never made any sense. > However, I would suggest that the mountain is unlikely to > come to you; instead, you must go to the mountain. In this particular case, the mountain had already come to me. I was just objecting to your suggestion that it go back. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
