On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 6:36 PM, Carcharoth <carcharot...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 6:20 PM, Bod Notbod <bodnot...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 6:05 PM, Nathan <nawr...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> The problem is that you misunderstood what he was saying, and then >>> harshly criticized what you mistakenly took him to mean. He was asked >>> "Can you describe the editorial policy [of wikien.net]?" He replied >>> that it would be a relaxed forum for discussion and chitchat, with 'no >>> trolling or outing' as a caveat to the relaxed moderating. Nowhere did >>> he make a claim about on-wiki (or on-list) problems of trolling or >>> outing (outing is making public personal details on someone who edits >>> psuedonymously). The background, which you evidently missed, is that >>> some non-wiki forums used to discuss Wikipedia expressly allow both >>> trolling and outing. >> >> Fair enough, I do appear to have missed part of the conversation. I >> apologise. >> >> Though the intent may be chivalrous, I still think that splintering is >> bad for any community. It's hard to keep up with everything that's >> going on. >> >> I'm quite new to the mailing lists and I really hanker for things to >> be reined in. For example, I'd prefer that "Foundation" type >> announcements were on... well, I was going to say en:wp... but that >> would be too hidden from people working on other projects, so maybe on >> Meta? And then people could leave comments there. > > There is already a foundation mailing list. That, and others, are listed here: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Mailing_lists
There is also a 5-year-old poll here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Mailing_lists#Poll:_a_better_place_for_discussions.3F Carcharoth _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
