2008/9/9 River Tarnell river@wikimedia.org:
i don't think this is feasible. any time you have several interested people in the same place (such as IRC, or a real-life meeting), they're going to start talking about things, and perhaps even reach a decision among themselves. you can't stop that unless you ban people talking on IRC ;-) (i'm not saying we should do everything on IRC then report it on the wiki; rather that we should be flexible in where things are done, as long as people who aren't there still have just as much input.)
Yep. IRC is a place to talk about things and clarify thinking, sort out ideas, etc. Solid decisions should be on the wiki. The mailing list is somewhat between the two and IMO is often good enough for rough consensus on noncontroversial stuff.
- d.