[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia is not a dictionary (was: Re: Old Wikipedia backups discovered)

[quiddity]

On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 5:58 PM, Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 4:48 PM, quiddity <pandiculation at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Also, it might be helpful to move this discussion on-wiki, so that
>> other interested parties can participate.
>
> It would be more helpful to move the on-wiki discussion here.  Very
> limited meta-discussion of the nature of Wikipedia should be placed on
> the site itself.

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. 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".

2. Given that you infrequently participate on-wiki,* and your historic
reticence to even communicate on-wiki,** I'm not surprised by this
suggestion. However, I would suggest that the mountain is unlikely to
come to you; instead, you must go to the mountain.

Quiddity

* http://toolserver.org/~luxo/contributions/contributions.php?user=Anthony

** http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Anthony&direction=prev&oldid=140147011
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Anthony&oldid=140153625
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Anthony&oldid=195403930