On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 5:58 PM, Anthony <wikimail(a)inbox.org> wrote:
On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 4:48 PM, quiddity
<pandiculation(a)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=p…
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Anthony&oldid=14015…
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Anthony&oldid=19540…