Henry H. Tan-Tenn wrote:
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?
Who said they were. You would marginalize them on a mailing list of one.
Each language
that is considered will have a whole new set of newbies.
Great -- they could all learn together.
Right! Let the blind lead the blind in mutually unintelligible languages.
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.
You can't ask anything of a person who isn't here to be asked.
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.
I have NEVER told anybody to do that. That allegation is bullshit.
Ec