Lars Aronsson wrote:
While all this discussion of the cost of pizza in Tampa Bay is very interesting, it might be polite to other list members if discussions are kept focused on the organization of the Wikimedia Foundation and its board. I'm not speaking for any of these, I'm just a bystander with an interest in statistics.
In the last week, I have received 216 messages addressed to foundation-l. That would be 800 posts per month, which is twice as much as the comfortable level. As a comparison, wikitech-l saw 124 messages in the same time and the German wikide-l only 44.
The most frequent posters to foundation-l were:
24 From: Michael R. Irwin 20 From: Anthony DiPierro 14 From: Kelly Martin 13 From: Erik Moeller 11 From: Gregory Maxwell 10 From: Zack Clark 10 From: Anthere 8 From: Jimmy Wales 6 From: Robert Scott Horning 6 From: Delirium
Interesting.
I recently got out of the hospital and responded to a 6-7 week backlog in the last couple of days.
Plus I currently have no permanent or stable workspace for Wikiversity activities to absorb my time and vamoose me away from here to useful recruiting, content creation, yack yacking with my buddies with a common goal or vision there, etc. etc.
No doubt I shall remain in the top twenty for a while.
It might be polite for people tired of reading windbags who have just dropped in for a few months to figure why a project with overwhelming support from everyone; the Board, the voters: except people who oppose it and will probably not participate in it; to simply delete my posts and quit implying I or others providing useful information for me should shut up.
Perhaps you and others should consider reviewing the archives or the daily mediawiki digest if we are clogging your inbox and you dislike automated filtering or rapid deletion without reading.
regards, lazyquasar