Indeed. That was what I was trying to say - I must have been unclear.
David
On 26/05/07, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
David Mestel wrote:
Wikis in general, including MediaWiki in particular, are very poor for
conducting discussions
The thing I find is that on-wiki, anything you say which you later think better of stays around to haunt you forever. Obviously, however,
openness
is also a Good Thing, so I think that the bottom line is that IRC is a
place
for informal opinion-gathering, not for actual decision-making.
OK, but you still need to make the arguments in a public place, where after discussion on IRC some of the more stupid elements can be eliminated. Agreement on IRC is not on-wiki agreement. The new people that become involved may have very different ideas.
Ec
WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l