[WikiEN-l] Dispute resolution mailing list

[Thomas Dalton]

2009/6/28 stevertigo <stvrtg at gmail.com>:
> On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 12:16 PM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> No, before that. You mentioned wikipedia-l in reference to
>> multilingual lists being a success but wikipedia-l is neither
>> multilingual nor a success, so I fail to see your point.
>>
>
> You definition of "success" is admirably vague. Does "America" have to
> survive forever to be a "success" in promoting human freedom (such that
> there eventually be no more need for a particular nation called the "U.S.A")
> ?  The defunct-ness of a thing is not an indication of its failure. Take
> your ancestors for example.

I wasn't aware that was the stated goal of the USA, but that's not
really relevant. Wikipedia-l didn't cease to be needed, it was
replaced because it wasn't up to the job.

> And yes, it was originally an international mailing list, IIRC, albeit there
> were few international wikis then, few people used it for such, wrote in
> English anyway, and in any case IIRC the first fork from wikipedia-l was
> en-l largely to separate the former for global wiki usage.

Exactly, they wrote in English because multilingual mailing lists don't work.