[WikiEN-l] A modest proposal - a recap of resolution-l

[Thomas Dalton]

2009/7/28 stevertigo <stvrtg at gmail.com>:
> On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 1:53 PM, Thomas Dalton<thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> You have to demonstrate that it has been achieved, usually be giving a
>> link to the discussion where (almost) everyone was in agreement. All
>> you had was a mailing list thread where not many people agreed and
>> very few people participated at all.
>
> Ah. Just looking through the list of current mailing lists:
> Checkuser-l, functionaries-l, arbitration-l (sic), mediation-l (sic),
> accounts-en-l, OTRS-en-l (also de, fr, etc.) - quite a few private
> lists, actually, for such an open project.
>
> I also note lists like daily-image-l and daily-article-l etc. - spam
> basically.  Greenspun? 25K was enough to get someone's name as a
> project and mailing list title? Doesn't look really resonant with the
> illustrators, either.
>
> I get the picture, and if there were a relevant substantive point to
> be made here it would be something like 'There cannot be a
> resolution-l mailing list, regardless of how well-purposed and useful
> it will be, simply because we already have so many useless mailing
> lists, as well as private ones that people don't have access to.

Would you like a match to set light to that straw man?

> And am I to understand that all of these have been vetted in accord
> with the same process you promote? Hm. Links, please.

Several of those were decreed by Jimbo, that is an exception to the
usual rule. Some were created unilaterally by the WMF, also an
exception. Proposals that come from the community, like yours, require
consensus.