Re: Future of this mailing list

"FRED BAUDER" <[email protected]> Tue, 02 Dec 2014 03:26:37 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.english
Message-ID <[email protected]>
How about disabling new posts, or forwarding new posts to Wikimedia-l, 
making a referral to Wikimedia-l in the info, and leaving the archives 
open.

Fred Bauder

On Tue, 2 Dec 2014 00:26:31 +0000
  Carcharoth <[email protected]> wrote:
> If the moderators of this mailing list are around, would they or
> anyone else subscribed to the list be able to throw up some 
>statistics
> about how much the traffic has declined over the past few years? I'm
> asking because looking at the archives, I think that last month
> (November 2014) was the first month since the mailing list started 
>in
> September 2001 that there were no posts to the this mailing list 
>(the
> wiki-en-l mailing list for discussion of matters related to the
> English Wikipedia).
> 
> Admittedly, the list has been moribund for a long time, but I'm not
> sure exactly when the tipping point was reached (most 
>meta-discussion
> seems to take place either on-wiki, at meta, or on the Wikimedia-l
> mailing list). What is the general view in the Wikimedia universe on
> maintaining low-traffic lists like this? It might be time to discuss
> what future this mailing list has.
> 
> https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/
> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
> 
> Actually, looking at the list of moderators, how many of them are 
>still around?
> 
> Carcharoth
> 
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