On Thu, 2003-03-20 at 06:00, Daniel Mayer wrote:
On Wednesday 19 March 2003 09:23 pm, Graham Burnett wrote:
Well I'm quite new to this mailing list, so forgive my ignorance, but it seems that alot goes on 'behind the scenes' of wikipedia here,
Behind the scenes? This is a publicly readable, unmoderated mailing list that is open to anybody with an email account. In addition, a link is on the Main Page says "Mailing lists" and you might have noticed the same link at the top of Recent Changes. Oh and on the "Mailing lists" page is a direct link to the archives where every single post that has ever been made resides - we hide nothing here.
Now how in the world is that behind the scenes? Saying this is "behind the scenes" is like saying the the general proceedings of the US Congress are behind the scenes just because you don't bother to watch CSPAN (yeah I know, not everybody who can vote has cable, but everybody who contributes to Wikipedia has access to an Internet connection so our proceeding are in fact /more/ open than Congress - that's not to say that we shouldn't become more open).
Methinks he doth protest too much.