By active I mean open. It has had periods of quietness. On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 8:08 AM, 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. > > 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 chime in. That could happen here. > > Best, > > On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 7:18 AM, 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 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 <wiki.p...@gmail.com> 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 < >> 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 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 <dger...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > > > 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 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 >> > > > WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> > > > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: >> > > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l >> > > > >> > > >> > > _______________________________________________ >> > > WikiEN-l mailing list >> > > WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> > > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: >> > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l >> > > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > WikiEN-l mailing list >> > WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: >> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l >> > >> _______________________________________________ >> WikiEN-l mailing list >> WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l >> > > _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
