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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