Many people have had their problems solved using this list, it is very useful indeed. If you need a quick response use the irc channel. But remember MediaWiki is FOSS so support is not required and we aren't being paid to give it.
On 23/05/07, Monahon, Peter B. Peter.Monahon@uspto.gov wrote:
1 - More than one of my posts has bounced back because either:
- the moderator thinks is inappropriate (to complex?);
- because a list auto-setting complains that my post is too big (to
complex?). Hey, if I had simple problems ...
2 - The list recently, at least, has taken w-a-y too long to arrive for me to depend on it for contemporaneous solutions. By the time the digest arrives, it's not only bereft of responses, but it's w-a-y too late, and I've moved on to other resources and other problems.
So, is this list MediaWiki-l dead or dying? Do we all find each other off list instead, and the l-o-n-g time between broadcasts is an indication that this list has little or no function after all?
Is MediaWiki-l dysfunctional? What is it good for, really?
Why not setup a real ***wiki*** discussion right at the MediaWiki.org home pages, and encourage the MediaWiki software to actually mature to handle such support needs as ours, instead of using an old-fashioned mailing list like this?
Your 2 cents?
- Peter Blaise
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