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

[Ray Saintonge]

On 09/19/11 12:19 PM, Steven Walling wrote:
> 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.
>
>
"NS5" is another cryptic acronym.

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