In the last two weeks this list saw 233 messages with "English" in the Subject line. The most common ("Re:" removed) were:
95 Subject: [Wikipedia-l] Wikipedia English English 45 Subject: [Wikipedia-l] new request for ASL/English wikipedia 30 Subject: [Wikipedia-l] Sample ASL/English entry 22 Subject: [Wikipedia-l] Anglicised English British English 9 Subject: [Wikipedia-l] Request for AS/English Wikipedia 9 Subject: [Wikipedia-l] OurMedia for ASL-English video
None of these discussions are expected to lead anywhere in the near future. Please wake me up when you have some ASL websites that I can look at, or when you have reached consensus on color/colour spelling.
The most of these pointless messages were posted by:
27 From: Mark Williamson 21 From: Gerard Meijssen 19 From: Jack & Naree 19 From: Alphax 16 From: Andrew Gray 12 From: James R. Johnson
I admit to having written 2 of the messages, and this is my 3rd.
In 1945 Vannevar Bush wrote an article about the Memex, but he never built one. In 1960 Ted Nelson started to design the Xanadu system, but have you seen it in operation? The aspect that makes Wikipedia stand out is that it exists. We will continue to be more successful than those old losers if we keep smalltalk to a minimum and get back to work on ideas that we can implement.