[WikiEN-l] New site for meta-discussion

[Carcharoth]

On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 6:36 PM, Carcharoth <carcharothwp at googlemail.com> wrote:
> 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

There is also a 5-year-old poll here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Mailing_lists#Poll:_a_better_place_for_discussions.3F

Carcharoth