On 9/13/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 13/09/2007, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
What I was trying to say, I've been on-list for about 16 months now, and have 20 years plus prior Internet experience. I think Marc is accurate insofar as the tone of the list in the last few months is different than it was in the year before that; it's not being used for as many serious high level discussions and is somewhat more grumpy.
Not being used for as many serious high level discussions... interesting point. When was foundation-l started? Have all the serious discussions moved there leaving just the rants here?
No, it's at least as ranty ;-)
wikien-l is an official place to talk English Wikipedia business, as foundation-l is an official place to talk Foundation business. In both cases, they're pretty much open to all, so they both frequently descend into spiraling threads of death which are best ignored.
In my opinion; there's less strife by far on foundation-l, along with less people.
Still some strong opinions, but more people seem offended by goings-on at English Wikipedia than at the foundation level.