On 27/08/05, Angela beesley@gmail.com wrote:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikinews/License It was circulated on the mailing list. [...]
As you can see, it was never mentioned.
That's completely untrue. The page was advertised on the Wikinews mailing list as the following extract shows:
On 8/10/05, Erik Moeller wrote on wikinews-l:
So, what do we do next? I have started a new page at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikinews/License which collects the licensing options and the main arguments I could think of. I invite you to add arguments to this page. Perhaps we can find a clear consensus for one option, but if we cannot, we will probably have to resort to a vote to finalize the decision.
Hmmm, and how was I supposed to know that? Funnily enough, I can't tell what was and was not posted to the mailing list when all public records from period have been lost.
Look, as far as consulting with the Wikinews community goes, it's not to difficult to understand:
1. There are few active Wikinews contributors on the wikinews-l list 2. It appears to be English only (ie poking through the archives I see few/no non-English posters) 3. We don't have a lot to talk about, so therefore discussions tend to stay on the wikis.
So if you want to ask every Wikinews community about something, you post on the wikis. You go to the Water cooler on en. and post your query, and you repeat that exercise on each language edition.
Otherwise you *will not* reach the people who actually contribute. You may _wish_ that posting to the mailing list is sufficient to do that - BUT IT IS NOT.
Dan