[WikiEN-l] New site for meta-discussion

[Carcharoth]

On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 6:20 PM, Bod Notbod <bodnotbod at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 6:05 PM, Nathan <nawrich at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> The problem is that you misunderstood what he was saying, and then
>> harshly criticized what you mistakenly took him to mean. He was asked
>> "Can you describe the editorial policy [of wikien.net]?" He replied
>> that it would be a relaxed forum for discussion and chitchat, with 'no
>> trolling or outing' as a caveat to the relaxed moderating. Nowhere did
>> he make a claim about on-wiki (or on-list) problems of trolling or
>> outing (outing is making public personal details on someone who edits
>> psuedonymously). The background, which you evidently missed, is that
>> some non-wiki forums used to discuss Wikipedia expressly allow both
>> trolling and outing.
>
> Fair enough, I do appear to have missed part of the conversation. I apologise.
>
> Though the intent may be chivalrous, I still think that splintering is
> bad for any community. It's hard to keep up with everything that's
> going on.
>
> I'm quite new to the mailing lists and I really hanker for things to
> be reined in. For example, I'd prefer that "Foundation" type
> announcements were on... well, I was going to say en:wp... but that
> would be too hidden from people working on other projects, so maybe on
> Meta? And then people could leave comments there.

There is already a foundation mailing list. That, and others, are listed here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Mailing_lists

Carcharoth