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 <[email protected]> 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 keep it open. > This is a reflection on the fact that almost none of the subscribers seem > to use it, that there are almost no posts to it, that it can easily become > a black hole where a "new" subscriber is unaware that the likelihood > they'll get a response to their email, or one that is accurate or > actionable, is very small. > > In an ideal world, this list would be active and lively and chock full of > interesting discussions. That's not happening at all. It is better to > consider this "legacy communication" and to lock it down (thus relieving > the responsibilities of the probably one or two list admins who are > actually moderating through the one real message out of thousands of spam > messages). It is obvious that this list is no longer serving the purpose > it once had. I'm not sure exactly where people are going to communicate > now - there are lots of comments for a lot of blog posts, I understand > facebook gets a fair number of responses, and some of the on-wiki > noticeboard are quite active. But this list is no longer reaching the > target community. > > Risker/Anne > > On 11 August 2015 at 17:16, Pine W <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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 <[email protected]> >> 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 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? >> > >> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/ >> > >> > Yup. June 2015 and July 2015 join September 2014 as 'dead' months in >> > the archives. :-) >> > >> > On 12/2/14, David Gerard <[email protected]> wrote: >> > > On 2 December 2014 at 10:12, Amir E. Aharoni >> > > <[email protected]> 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 if it >> shut >> > >> down. >> > > >> > > >> > > Despite the lengthy moderator list, I'm about it for actually >> > > bothering. Not that there's much to do. >> > > >> > > In the world of mailing lists, en:wp discussion tends to happen on >> > > wikimedia-l, if at all. >> > > >> > > >> > >> I'd shut down Wikipedia-L first, however - that one is really dead, >> > except >> > >> occasional people who pop in by mistake every few months. >> > > >> > > >> > > +1 >> > > >> > > >> > > - d. >> > > >> > > _______________________________________________ >> > > WikiEN-l mailing list >> > > [email protected] >> > > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: >> > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l >> > > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > WikiEN-l mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: >> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l >> > >> _______________________________________________ >> WikiEN-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l >> > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
