[WikiEN-l] A quiet, peaceful email list for experienced en contributors?

[Thomas Dalton]

>   I notice that lately this mailing list seems to be almost overrun
> with a lot of noise: complaints about blocking, diatribes about
> perceived wrongs, requests of various kinds. Whereas what I would
> really like is a place where the most committed and experienced
> Wikipedians can discuss more serious issues in a bit of depth: where
> the project is going, recurring problems at a more abstract level,
> general issues more distilled than "omg [[foo.com]] is so crap!" etc.

I think a fair bit of the complaining is by experienced editors. You'd
lose most of the more trivial "I've been blocked" emails, but that's
all, and those emails aren't hard to ignore.