[Wikipedia-l] New lists for small languages and/or new projects (Re: Serbo-Croatian Wikipedia)

[Ray Saintonge]

Henry H. Tan-Tenn wrote:

> Ray Saintonge ti 2004/11/24 EP 12:30 sia-kong:
>
>> Gerrit wrote:
>
>>> How about a separate mailinglist for 'small language wikipedia's' and
>>> 'new wikipedia-related projects'?
>>
>> I doubt that that would work.  A significant portion of the people 
>> who are likely to work on these are newbies who are may not be 
>> familiar with the list.  
>
> They (we) are not too stupid to learn, are they? 

Who said they were.  You would marginalize them on a mailing list of one.

>> Each language that is considered will have a whole new set of newbies.  
>
> Great -- they could all learn together. 

Right!  Let the blind lead the blind in mutually unintelligible languages.

> My point is NOT that we should have a list for smaller WPs.  It is 
> that there's no ground that I am aware of that would indicate a 
> different set of behaviors on the part of small-language Wikipedians, 
> newbies or not.  Indeed everyone started a newbie, including yourself. 
> The way to find out if "those" Wikipedians are interested is to _ask_ 
> them, not imagine (in a dismissive way) what they might or might not 
> do or want, as if they were strawmen or -women. 

You can't ask anything of a person who isn't here to be asked.

> And please don't tell people to find their own "free" mailing list. 
> They've already been told (by you) to install their own wiki.

I have NEVER told anybody to do that.  That allegation is bullshit.

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