I can see both sides to this discussion: there does seem to be a lack of response on the mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Support_desk page, and on this mailing list, to certain *but not all* questions. From my experience anyway. But, I appreciate that people are offering their time to help strangers. So, as I say I can see both sides.
Anyway if you don't like something don't continue reading it, is my motto when it comes to the Internet...
----- Original Message ----- From: "Gary Kirk" gary.kirk@gmail.com To: "MediaWiki announcements and site admin list" mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 2:15 PM Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Is MediaWiki-l dysfunctional? What is it good for,really?
I am growing frustrated with your messages. Nobody is forcing you to use, view, or post to this mailing list.
If you want people's responses when they send them, why sign up to the digest version? You can change your settings at lists.wikimedia.org.
There is support available on MediaWiki.org: mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Support_desk. There's also #mediawik at irc.freenode.net.
This list is a fantastic resource and you have done nothing but rubbish it or complain. Remember, we don't owe you anything, but as we're nice people, we'll try and help. We're all also human, and we have limits.
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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-- Gary Kirk
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