John Lee wrote:
On 7/28/07, Bryan Derksen bryan.derksen@shaw.ca wrote:
This is wikien-l. It's a discussion forum. We're allowed to have POVs here.
Um, AFAIK this is a list meant for discussions related to the English Wikipedia, not Anything Wikipedians Would Like To Talk About. We post stuff to the list that other Wikipedians may find interesting because it is related to our work on en, but if we go down the path of discussions irrelevant to our volunteering on Wikipedia (i.e. going on a long frolic bashing other websites, and starting a subfrolic of criticising that bashing), I'm not sure we're in line anymore with the purpose of this mailing list.
The irrelevance of this thread is debatable, though. Metapedia is another online encyclopedia so comparative analysis with Wikipedia is reasonable and on-topic. It's also funny, which IMO is important to have every once in a while.
And the sub-thread criticizing the bashing seems on-topic to me because it's discussing the mailing list itself. Unless there's a wikien-l-l out there, this seems to be the appropriate place for such discussions. :)