On Mon, 2002-10-21 at 22:24, Stephen Gilbert wrote:
--- tarquin tarquin@planetunreal.com wrote:
(this list really has a problem with short-term memory -- we only seem to manage 3 or 4 "current" issues, and things get dropped off the agenda, such as the TeX [[math:]] markup idea.)
The problem is the traffic. I don't have two hours a day to follow every issue that comes up.
What we need is to encourage the habbit of bringing up an issue on the mailing list, then taking the detailed conversation to meta.wikipedia.org or an appropriate talk page in the pedia. That way, people's inboxs don't have to explode whenever there's a hot topic.
What we actually need to do is go to a BBS-style system like Yahoo Groups (that can also be accessed as a mailing list) that ideally would be integrated with meta.
Short-term, we can encourage non-technological solutions.