On 8/27/05, Dan Grey dangrey@gmail.com wrote:
There's about four people on the mailing list.
Four? There are 236 people on that mailing list.
It has near-zero traffic as we're still small enough for *all* discussion to be kept on the wiki.
On which wiki? If you mean meta, then it was there too (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikinews/License). If you mean the English Wikinews, then I disagree. This was an issue affecting the Spanish, Serbian, and Romanian editions of Wikinews. Where other than meta or the mailing list were you expecting a discussion about those?
I have no idea who made that page - and certainly word of its existence was never circulated.
It was circulated on the mailing list. 11 different people replied to it. 236 Wikinewsies could have read it and circulated it to their own communities.
I had a look at that the other day. The vast majority of the "votes" there are from 2004. What's more noticeable though is that hardly any of the users on that page actually are Wikinews contributors. To sum, nothing on that page is relevant to the situation today.
Which is the reason a completely new page was made at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikinews/License
Angela.