On 7/28/07, Bryan Derksen
<bryan.derksen(a)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. :)