[Gendergap] A proposal

ChaoticFluffy chaoticfluffy at gmail.com
Fri Feb 18 00:30:52 UTC 2011


I'd totally support this. The mailing list format moves fast and loses
things fast; a wiki format would give us a little more space to breathe.

-Fluff

On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 7:20 PM, Oliver Keyes <scire.facias at gmail.com>wrote:

> The mailing list format is all well and good, but it's led to problems;
> people are talking "too much", there are concerns about editing attitude,
> and it's a relatively obscure and odd-to-wrangle interface for those not
> familiar with it. In addition, the structure of mailing lists by default
> means that things that suggestions which aren't immediately popular tend to
> drop off the face of the earth. With the usability and Strategic Plan
> projects, a dedicated wiki was created where people could turn up and
> discuss ideas and projects in a far more open and easily navigable format.
> Would it be an idea to create gendergap.wikimedia.org, or
> outreach.wikimedia.org, or *something*, where we could apply that open and
> familiar format to this problem as well?
>
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