Re: [WikiEN-l] Future of this mailing list

2015-08-14 Thread David Gerard
On 13 August 2015 at 16:01, Charles Matthews charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com wrote: On 13 August 2015 at 15:08, Brian J Mingus brian.min...@colorado.edu wrote: Leave the list open! There are lots of important people subscribed, and you never know when an interesting conversation will pop up.

Re: [WikiEN-l] Future of this mailing list

2015-08-13 Thread David Gerard
I think it's basically just me occasionally clearing the mod queue. I concur - mothball this list. On 13 August 2015 at 14:18, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote: I've given this some thought, and pretty much come to the conclusion that it would be better to make this list historic rather than

Re: [WikiEN-l] Future of this mailing list

2015-08-13 Thread Brian J Mingus
Leave the list open! There are lots of important people subscribed, and you never know when an interesting conversation will pop up. I'm the present moderator of a mailing list that's been active since 1988. When an interesting conversation starts, it's fascinating to see all the famous people

Re: [WikiEN-l] Future of this mailing list

2015-08-13 Thread Charles Matthews
On 13 August 2015 at 15:08, Brian J Mingus brian.min...@colorado.edu wrote: Leave the list open! There are lots of important people subscribed, and you never know when an interesting conversation will pop up. Sounds as if we need a moderator willing to take over from David G. Charles

Re: [WikiEN-l] Future of this mailing list

2015-08-11 Thread Pine W
I don't see much harm in keeping this list alive in a low-activity state. Pine On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 2:15 PM, Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com wrote: Time to once again consider the future of this list and maybe also that of Wikipedia-L (as David suggested back in December)? I

Re: [WikiEN-l] Future of this mailing list

2015-08-11 Thread Carcharoth
Time to once again consider the future of this list and maybe also that of Wikipedia-L (as David suggested back in December)? I think I'm right in saying that apart from this list being used for some discussion of block appeals, nothing was posted here for all of June and July?

Re: [WikiEN-l] Future of this mailing list

2014-12-02 Thread Carcharoth
The moderators of Wikimedia-l would need to agree to that. En-specific stuff would be off-topic there. Could someone cross-post this there if that is allowed? Also best to wait for one of the moderators here to weigh in. On Tuesday, December 2, 2014, FRED BAUDER fredb...@fairpoint.net wrote: How

Re: [WikiEN-l] Future of this mailing list

2014-12-02 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
I kinda like the separation between cross-project and cross-language issues on Wikimedia-L and the discussion about English Wikipedia, but if nobody is interested in the existence of this list, I won't be very sad if it shut down. I'd shut down Wikipedia-L first, however - that one is really

Re: [WikiEN-l] Future of this mailing list

2014-12-02 Thread David Gerard
On 2 December 2014 at 10:12, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote: I kinda like the separation between cross-project and cross-language issues on Wikimedia-L and the discussion about English Wikipedia, but if nobody is interested in the existence of this list, I won't be very sad

Re: [WikiEN-l] Future of this mailing list

2014-12-02 Thread Brian J Mingus
What is there to say? On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 5:26 PM, Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com wrote: If the moderators of this mailing list are around, would they or anyone else subscribed to the list be able to throw up some statistics about how much the traffic has declined over the past few

Re: [WikiEN-l] Future of this mailing list

2014-12-01 Thread FRED BAUDER
How about disabling new posts, or forwarding new posts to Wikimedia-l, making a referral to Wikimedia-l in the info, and leaving the archives open. Fred Bauder On Tue, 2 Dec 2014 00:26:31 + Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com wrote: If the moderators of this mailing list are around,