On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 8:37 PM, Carcharothcarcharothwp@googlemail.com wrote:
He does have a point. Jimbo founding principles did have something about keeping mailing lists open. I would hope that this applies to foundation-l as much as wiki-en-l, which I believe predates the foundation mailing list.
Do we have a mailing list historian around here? I know I could look back at the earliest archives, but a personal touch would be nice if there are any, ahem, *real* dinosaurs around here. Any of the 2001 crew still subscribed?
I don't think we necessarily need any historians, dinosaurs, or other oldbies other than the ones we've got. I've been around since '02 - not really posting to wikien-l until '03 (sort of didn't like the idea). You're an oldbie as well, I well know. And not to mention, in '01 to mid-late '02, Larry was still around, and Jimbo's approach to Wikipedia was more detached and casual. Sanger did a lot of the early designing. Wales then came along and did a lot of the founding. Much of it, appropriately, on principles of openness and transparency.
Much has changed for the worse now - what with Jimbo retired and out of the picture.
-Stevertigo