[WikiEN-l] Difficulty making structural changes to WP due to human nature?

[Steven Walling]

On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 11:48 AM, Fred Bauder <fredbaud at fairpoint.net>wrote:

> Sounds like an interesting project which might answer a few perennial
> questions such as to what extent Larry Sanger shaped basic Wikipedia
> policies. However, please keep in mind that this mailing list and the
> Wikipedia-l mailing lists were much more active in those days, contained
> significant discussions of substantive issues, and that policy was
> sometimes made on those lists, and only memorialized in policy pages.
>
> Fred
>

Definitely a good point, especially if we want to fold in NS5 contributions
into any study.

Steven