Ray Saintonge ti 2004/11/24 EP 12:30 sia-kong:
Gerrit wrote:
How about a separate mailinglist for 'small language wikipedia's' and 'new wikipedia-related projects'?
I doubt that that would work. A significant portion of the people who are likely to work on these are newbies who are may not be familiar with the list.
They (we) are not too stupid to learn, are they?
Each language that is considered will have a whole new set of newbies.
Great -- they could all learn together.
Once a particular language wiki is implemented that group will lose interest in the mailing list because they will be too busy with their own pedia.
Possibly. But I notice the larger WPs have been implemented some time ago and some haven't lost interest in the mailing lists.
My point is NOT that we should have a list for smaller WPs. It is that there's no ground that I am aware of that would indicate a different set of behaviors on the part of small-language Wikipedians, newbies or not. Indeed everyone started a newbie, including yourself. The way to find out if "those" Wikipedians are interested is to _ask_ them, not imagine (in a dismissive way) what they might or might not do or want, as if they were strawmen or -women.
And please don't tell people to find their own "free" mailing list. They've already been told (by you) to install their own wiki.
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