2009/6/28 stevertigo <[email protected]>: > On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 12:16 PM, Thomas Dalton > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> No, before that. You mentioned wikipedia-l in reference to >> multilingual lists being a success but wikipedia-l is neither >> multilingual nor a success, so I fail to see your point. >> > > You definition of "success" is admirably vague. Does "America" have to > survive forever to be a "success" in promoting human freedom (such that > there eventually be no more need for a particular nation called the "U.S.A") > ? The defunct-ness of a thing is not an indication of its failure. Take > your ancestors for example.
I wasn't aware that was the stated goal of the USA, but that's not really relevant. Wikipedia-l didn't cease to be needed, it was replaced because it wasn't up to the job. > And yes, it was originally an international mailing list, IIRC, albeit there > were few international wikis then, few people used it for such, wrote in > English anyway, and in any case IIRC the first fork from wikipedia-l was > en-l largely to separate the former for global wiki usage. Exactly, they wrote in English because multilingual mailing lists don't work. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
