Hoi, There are too many "village pumps" there are fewer embassies. By sending to a mailing list you reach the people who have indicated to be interested in the subjects a mailing list stands for.
I disagree that the mailing list are less public or transparent then the "village pumps", they reach a different public. When a specific thread is of sufficient interest, it can be referred to. The archives are open to all. I would even argue the opposite; when you post on more then two "village pumps" most people will not know what is said elsewhere and consequently it is impossible to reach a consensus.
Thanks, GerardM
On 8/11/07, Gianluigi Gamba gigamb@tin.it wrote:
2007/8/11, Brianna Laugher brianna.laugher@gmail.com:
...Well that's fine. The name is not of great importance to me. I just want some infrastructure to exist.
In a sense, it already does exist.
The "village pumps" and the "embassies" (or their equivalent) of every wikiproject are the right place for posting questions about policy comparisons, suggestion about wiki-activities, and so on... meta itself *is* the place where try to coordinate globally.
The main difference is that such wiki-spaces are completely public and trasparent, meanwhile a mailing list requires a subscription. But the topics given as example IMHO do not require secrecy. Should a topic be handled in a non-wholly-public place, there are the already existing mailing lists...
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