[Wikipedia-l] English stats

[Marco Chiesa]

By the way, does en.wiki have / has en.wiki got its own mailing list? Why 
aren't most of these threads there? I think ASL belongs here (being ASL a 
language on its own), but Wikipedia English English doesn't yet.

Cruccone

On 9/20/05, Lars Aronsson <lars at aronsson.se> wrote:
> 
> 
> In the last two weeks this list saw 233 messages with "English" in
> the Subject line. The most common ("Re:" removed) were:
> 
> 95 Subject: [Wikipedia-l] Wikipedia English English
> 45 Subject: [Wikipedia-l] new request for ASL/English wikipedia
> 30 Subject: [Wikipedia-l] Sample ASL/English entry
> 22 Subject: [Wikipedia-l] Anglicised English British English
> 9 Subject: [Wikipedia-l] Request for AS/English Wikipedia
> 9 Subject: [Wikipedia-l] OurMedia for ASL-English video
> 
> None of these discussions are expected to lead anywhere in the
> near future. Please wake me up when you have some ASL websites
> that I can look at, or when you have reached consensus on
> color/colour spelling.
> 
> The most of these pointless messages were posted by:
> 
> 27 From: Mark Williamson
> 21 From: Gerard Meijssen
> 19 From: Jack & Naree
> 19 From: Alphax
> 16 From: Andrew Gray
> 12 From: James R. Johnson
> 
> I admit to having written 2 of the messages, and this is my 3rd.
> 
> In 1945 Vannevar Bush wrote an article about the Memex, but he
> never built one. In 1960 Ted Nelson started to design the Xanadu
> system, but have you seen it in operation? The aspect that makes
> Wikipedia stand out is that it exists. We will continue to be
> more successful than those old losers if we keep smalltalk to a
> minimum and get back to work on ideas that we can implement.
> 
> 
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