[Foundation-l] Re: [WikiEN-l] Re: Corporate sponsorship of Wikipedia

[Anthere]

Delirium wrote:
> [crossposted from a discussion that originated on wikiEN-l]
> 
> Delirium wrote:
> 
>> Anthere wrote:
>>
>>> well, this is very unfortunate for you, because Angela and I will 
>>> strongly favor use of multilingual meta over mailing lists.
>>
>>
>>
>> I do think we've had a vote on this on en:, which also contained about 
>> five pages of arguments back and forth on both sides, as it came up on 
>> the Village Pump about 5 or 6 separate times, but I can't seem to find 
>> where it got moved to.  Links, anyone?
> 
> 
> I found it: several separate discussions are archived on [[en:Wikipedia
> talk:Mailing lists]].
> 
> The votes were mostly inconclusive...
> 
> Question: Should we have meta-discussions on:
> * mailing lists?  9 yes, 12 no, 3 neutral
> * web forums (boards.wikimedia.org)? 2 yes, 11 no, 5 neutral
> * the Wikimedia wiki (meta.wikimedia.org)? 12 yes, 9 no, 2 neutral
> * on Wikipedia itself (en.wikipedia.org for en: discussions)? 4 yes, 6
> no, 7 neutral
> 
> Of course, these are more like straw polls than a real vote, so can't be
> said to be conclusive, even if they had shown a strong preference one
> way or another, which they don't.  But clearly people are fairly
> strongly divided on the issue.  Allowing simultaneous wiki and email
> discussion is probably next to impossible as a compromise, but if the
> pro-wiki-discussion people would be willing to compromise on some
> web-based discussion interface other than a wiki, probably a gateway of
> some sort could be set up to allow posting and reading by either email
> or web, depending on personal preference.  gmane does some of this now,
> but perhaps some better web-email gateway interface is possible.
> 
> -Mark

Yes. Well, then, find us a way to discuss
*where the content will be under gfdl,
*where refactoring is possible,
*where translation to support multilingualism is possible (or at least 
refactoring to make it more readable to non english speakers)
*and where easy linkage to summary can be done and used on all wikis.

When a solution is found, we will consider the option. Meanwhile, it is 
easiest on meta.