Well Anthere, take my advice: lay it aside. You know how nationalist some
Americans are. Any bright straight thinker will dismiss all this as
nonsense. Personally I can only urge you to stay with us. But a wikiholiday
of one week isn't so bad... I recently took one of a few days myself. If you
are really upset, then take some rest and return with new enthousiasm after
one week or so - bet they've missed you badly then!
Wouter
Anthere wrote:
It may not be entirely clear, but I am currently
nearly on a wikivacation and seriously reconsidering
my possibly candidacy to the board.
Just for trying to raise an issue, I have been treated
as an american-basher.
I find that plain non acceptable.
I have been living in the USA and loved it. My son was
american before being french. My two kids started
learning english while 5 years old (usually 11 in
France).
I joined an english speaking project with no other
languages more than 3 years ago. I was recently told I
was amongst the top 100 biggest contributors.
In the past year, I have been spending an absolutely
incredible number of hours on an american foundation,
besides my own job which I have to keep to survive,
and besides my family life.
I do this entirely as a volunteer, it actually costs
me money because the Foundation does not reimburse all
costs, while we currently pay 2 and soon 3 american
employees, who are the only ones to benefit from the
whole system.
On the english wikipedia, I have been writting many
articles, helped in the mediation committee and
generally never hesitated helping anyone who was
asking for it.
And yes, I trusted Mav (an american) to take care of
finance, Danny (am american again) to take care of
grants
And so on...
All this for the shit I heard in the past days on
wikipedia-l? That I am an american basher ? That I am
unable to make the difference between a bad journalist
and the whole american people ? I have been insulted
by a whole lot of comments of what I supposingly
believe the american people to be, and which is so
afar from my own beliefs that I am extremely pained by
all this.
What pains me more than anything, is that but for
Jimbo, no one took a single second to say it was not
true, that I was able to make the difference.
So, forgive me, but right now, I am not in a good
mood.
Volunteer is good, but being insulted when you
volunteer many hours a day for more than 3 years, with
no apologies afterwards is just plain an error. I
think I am generally polite enough to people so that I
can make a criticism to a professional group without
being killed by the whole nation to whom this group
belong.
ant
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