True, but where this thread is going seems more like something for the foundation employees to worry about than something to poll mailing list participants on. I think people are right that this thread was off-topic. I just figured it was acceptable to talk about off-topic stuff in this mailing list.
I wonder if it'd make sense to have a list for talking about the "real world" (offtopic-l). Or maybe wikien-l is an appropriate forum for that. I personally don't mind at all when people go off-topic, so long as they do so in a separate thread (and don't add a random number of "K"s to the end of the subject).
Remember when the IRC channels were first plagued with this question? From what I heard it was all downhill from there.
This thread is definitely off-topic. That's why I put "OT" at the beginning of the subject. I can understand people being annoyed when someone takes a thread off-topic (I am myself), but I thought as long as I branched the thread off, marked it as off topic and gave a clear and descriptive subject no-one would mind. Clearly I was wrong...