On 11/21/05, GerardM gerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote:
Hoi, When the new project proposals and new language requests are done in a seperate mailing list, this mailing list will not have a representative population of the Wikimedia crowd. The discussions, even when interesting, will not lead to a consensus that is representative. This in turn will lead to a consensus brought as what is to be done which will be angrily denied to be a consensus by those who were not aware of what was going on.
All the overly much huha about new languages needs its place. If there is one thing wrong is that too little is said about other things. This is not remedied by removing this not ununimportant subject from the mailing lists.
Thanks, GerardM
I don't see the harm. So a new project is started which some people would have opposed if they had known about it? What they don't know won't hurt them.
Why does there need to be a consensus to start a new project in the first place?
Anthony