2009/6/28 stevertigo stvrtg@gmail.com:
On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 12:16 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.comwrote:
No, before that. You mentioned wikipedia-l in reference to multilingual lists being a success but wikipedia-l is neither multilingual nor a success, so I fail to see your point.
You definition of "success" is admirably vague. Does "America" have to survive forever to be a "success" in promoting human freedom (such that there eventually be no more need for a particular nation called the "U.S.A") ? The defunct-ness of a thing is not an indication of its failure. Take your ancestors for example.
I wasn't aware that was the stated goal of the USA, but that's not really relevant. Wikipedia-l didn't cease to be needed, it was replaced because it wasn't up to the job.
And yes, it was originally an international mailing list, IIRC, albeit there were few international wikis then, few people used it for such, wrote in English anyway, and in any case IIRC the first fork from wikipedia-l was en-l largely to separate the former for global wiki usage.
Exactly, they wrote in English because multilingual mailing lists don't work.