On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 5:58 PM, Anthony wikimail@inbox.org wrote:
On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 4:48 PM, quiddity pandiculation@gmail.com wrote:
Also, it might be helpful to move this discussion on-wiki, so that other interested parties can participate.
It would be more helpful to move the on-wiki discussion here. Very limited meta-discussion of the nature of Wikipedia should be placed on the site itself.
1. Given that the majority of Wikipedians are not subscribed to this mailing list (or at least don't post to it), having decisive discussions here is not very practical. The mailing lists are good for brainstorming, alerting, and sharing, (etc), amongst the small number of participants; they are not good for establishing a consensus on the "nature of Wikipedia".
2. Given that you infrequently participate on-wiki,* and your historic reticence to even communicate on-wiki,** I'm not surprised by this suggestion. However, I would suggest that the mountain is unlikely to come to you; instead, you must go to the mountain.
Quiddity
* http://toolserver.org/~luxo/contributions/contributions.php?user=Anthony
** http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Anthony&direction=pr... http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Anthony&oldid=140153... http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Anthony&oldid=195403...