From: Toby Bartels toby+wikipedia@math.ucr.edu

Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Request for setting up of the Polish mailing list

Jimmy Wales wrote:

...

I thought that was just a joke.

The request for <wikiEN-l>? That's no joke. It's certainly still a controversial subject, but there are a lot of us that think that such a list

should >exist, and should take most of the traffic from <wikipedia-l>.

See, well, practically everything anthere's written

lately. -- Toby

Hu ? I did not have the feeling I only wrote about that lately ! :-)

I will stay on the en.list btw. I strongly support this change to help the international ones to get more involved, plus to make it clear what is a english concern, and what should be a whole community concern.

From: The Cunctator cunctator@kband.com Another mailing list is not the answer, unless it's

moderated. >A bbs needs

to be set up.

I agree it will probably be a better choice. But, it will certainly take time to set up.

And what do you mean by moderated ?

If it's to gently point out to messages maybe not in the right list until people get used to it, ok. Or what ? Content ? Why would we give the power to any one person to decide what is worth talking about or how we should talk ? (exxxcept Jimmy of course...)

Imho, nobody should be "declared" and accept to be moderator of a list, without knowing what it means and implies.

The international list could be merged with the mainlist. Interlinking or coding are not only issues for international wikis. It could also be issues to the english one. Again, why setting a difference between the english and the others ? I agree the english is the bigger most comprehensive... one by large, but why should that impact setting relationship between all wikis ?

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