On Wednesday 18 February 2004 08:33 pm, David Friedland wrote:
On behalf of Kingturtle, who claims to be unable to post to the list, I would like to call everyone's attention to his post on:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration
He says:
Many of the higher level decisions regarding wikipedia are not discussed or made within wikipedia-proper, but are instead discussed and made on WikiEN-l. Not all have the ability to post to the mailing lists; this results in cutting out some people from important dialogs. In actuality, there is close to nothing that needs to be said in WikiEN-l that cannot be said in wikipedia-proper. I would like the arbitration committee to hear my arguments for the shutting down of WikiEN-l. You can call it User:Kingturtle v. WikiEN-l.
Mailing lists are a far superior medium for discussing issues than the wiki-interface.
Less bandwidth is consumed in discussing things on mailing lists.
The arbitration committee doesn't have any jurisdiction over this.
Best, Sascha Noyes