[Foundation-l] Moderate this list

Milos Rancic millosh at gmail.com
Fri Sep 11 08:15:30 UTC 2009


Fully agreed with Ray: If someone doesn't know how to use delete
button, then such person is not quite competent to use mailing lists.
It reminds me on criticism toward wikis: Ah, someone may change my
edits! I don't want to use that system anymore!

On 2009-09-11, phoebe ayers <phoebe.wiki at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 9:06 PM, Samuel Klein <meta.sj at gmail.com> wrote:
>> This is effectively the only cross-project list at the moment.  And it
>> is the canonical place to raise certain important issues and
>> announcements.
>>
>> It has become popular to disparage this list as a poor place to have
>> serious discussions about the foundation -- and to do the disparaging
>> in private, where it can't possible lead to consensus to change this.
>> Let's please stop doing that, and instead fix the list and its norms,
>> or devise replacements and alternatives, so that we can all agree on
>> where to have open, welcoming discussions -- that are comfortable for
>> almost everyone, including non-native English speakers; that draw
>> input from the core audience (people who care about Foundation
>> issues).
>>
>> Please don't view this as a problem that someone else must identify
>> and cope with.  If you are reading this list, you can help fix it.
>
> A reminder that there's ongoing discussion on meta about what to do.
> Please add to it!
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Improving_Foundation-l
>
> -- phoebe
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