On 27/08/05, Angela beesley@gmail.com wrote:
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.
Really? They're not saying much though, are they? The August archive:
http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikinews-l/2005-August/thread.html#298
About a third of mails are people trying to unsubscribe. That says a lot!
It has near-zero traffic as we're still small enough for *all* discussion to be kept on the wiki.
On which wiki?
You know exactly which one I mean.
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.
Erm, according to the page history that page was created on August 10 2005. You can read the August mailing list archive yourself - the link is above. As you can see, it was never mentioned. And only eight people replied to the discussion that did take place - and one of those was asking to unsubscribe!
Which is the reason a completely new page was made at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikinews/License
Which as we've just established, was never advertised, so is in the chocolate teapot category.
Your own comment about it - "why another page of this?" - says it all.
Dan