I am happy to read Pine's emails. A mailing list is useful to bring attention to specific issues as one can only watch a certain percentage of wikipedia / meta / etc.
J On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 11:10 AM, Sam Klein <sjkl...@hcs.harvard.edu> wrote: > [[m:Talk:Wikimedia_Foundation_Board_Governance_Committee/Board_structure > < > https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Wikimedia_Foundation_Board_Governance_Committee/Board_structure&action=edit&redlink=1 > > > ]] > > Wiki pages are certainly better for long-term organization of discussions. > They are harder for a few voices to dominate; they can be refactored and > summarized, and skimmed to find discussions among new voices. Our > translation tools work directly on meta. > > A simple mail-to-wiki script could be nice, adding a link from wiki pages > to public email/forum threads. But one doesn't exist now. > > Pine, you are one of the most active posters to this list, by count and > volume; clearly you like mail. Not everyone does; some are put off by the > power law distribution of posters here. Nat's suggestion is reasonable; > why not try it and see how it works. Some discussions about board > composition will inevitably occur here; if you see ones that you think are > relevant, you can help ensure they are summarized on that page. > > Sam > > > On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 11:45 AM, Dan Garry <dga...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > > > Hey Pine, > > > > On 27 July 2016 at 08:25, Pine W <wiki.p...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > I'm not sure that I agree with you. The Board and Lila ignored some > > > inquiries that I made on Meta. Discussions on this mailing list seem to > > > attract at least as much good-faith participation as discussions on > > Meta. I > > > would suggest that inquiries could be made in either venue, and the > Board > > > can simply acknowledge and collect them for action during the > governance > > > review. > > > > > > If I'm understanding, you're saying that you've previously left questions > > on Meta which ended up going unanswered, and therefore you'd prefer to > ask > > questions on this mailing list to increase your chances of a response. > > > > Increasing the number of open channels of communication also increases > the > > burden of monitoring those channels to ensure that nothing goes missing. > > Therefore, trying to engage in two places will likely increase the chance > > of something going missing, rather than decreasing. This is likely why > > Nataliia has asked that feedback be given in a single location, so that > she > > can be sure that she can see any feedback or questions that are given. I > > would encourage you to try engaging on Meta, as Nataliia suggests, rather > > than here, to reduce the chances that something goes missing or ignored. > > > > Thanks, > > Dan > > > > -- > > Dan Garry > > Lead Product Manager, Discovery > > Wikimedia Foundation > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > > > > > > -- > Samuel Klein @metasj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266 > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine www.opentextbookofmedicine.com _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>