2012/10/26 John Jackson <[email protected]>: > Hi Chaps. > > Thanks for reading and thoughtful comments. Should I try to send to > wikien-1 or wikimedia-1? Haven't joined. Don't know if I can.
It's wikien-L and wikimedia-L; "l" as in "List", not as in "one" :) The first one is about the English Wikipedia and the second one is about the general Wikimedia movement, and very frequently about Wikipedia in general. You can find link to both of them here: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo And yes, of course you can join. The Wikimedia movement tries to be open to everybody, and that includes its critics, as long as they are not tasteless. As a bit of personal advice, I have to say something brutally honest: The problem of amateurs/experts dynamics in Wikipedia is one that I care quite strongly about, and I would really like to see productive discussion about it. However, threats of retiring or deleting own contributions never help move such discussion forward. As much as I understand the feeling, expressing it this way simply doesn't work. Again, it's a pattern that repeated itself with academics from USA, Portugal, Israel, Russia and other countries, and from fields as diverse as Political Science, Education and Engineering. It would be much more useful to understand the current policies and practices, to try to identify particular flaws in them and to propose constructive changes. -- Amir _______________________________________________ Wikipedia-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l
