2009/6/28 stevertigo <stvrtg(a)gmail.com>om>:
On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 12:16 PM, Thomas Dalton
<thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
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.