2008/5/23, Cary Bass <cbass(a)wikimedia.org>rg>:
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Walter is tirless with the Wikizine and I know that his time is limited.
~ It's time we helped him find interested parties to help breathe new
life into it.
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Hi Cary and all,
Thanks for this request for help. I just wanted to make clear that it
is not directly a lack of time that is the problem. It is more a
question being tired and disappointed that makes it difficult to keep
putting energy in Wikizine.
I started Wikizine because I was displeased with the total lack
communication to the community by the people in charge of the wikis at
that time (this was pré WMF), the developers. So I wanted to do it
myself. The idea was to create a framework with Wikizine and that then
soon other people would join to help with it and that developers and
other people in charge would report news, indented changes in advance
to Wikizine. A central information exchange between all projects and
languages.
It did not worked out this way. It remains a one person project and I
can not say I get any cooperation at all form WMF-staff in a proactive
manner. After several years it becomes more and more difficult to keep
doing it this way. The Indonesian Wikizine editions is already closed.
Spanish and especially German remains but are not stable.
Helping can by reporting news, especially from non-English wikis.
http://report.wikizine.org And by helping actually creating a
Wikizine edition
http://meta.wikizine.org
You find there are the also link to the editors mailing list.
Greetings,
Walter
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