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

[MuZemike]

This has always been the place for such (IMO, healthy) meta-discussion 
to occur, which what I think this is.

-MuZemike

On 12/31/2010 12:04 AM, quiddity wrote:
> 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
>
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