--- Brion Vibber <brion(a)pobox.com> wrote:
On Dec 20, 2003, at 08:41, Daniel Mayer wrote:
So I guess the needs of Wiktionary, Wikiquote,
Wikibooks, and Wikisource (not to mention
Wikitravel) are secondary then?
Yes, they are. They're smaller, less popular
projects, and "the needs of the many outweigh the
needs of the few".
And minority rights mean next to nothing then? Should
their needs be put permanently on the back burner just
because they are have fewer hits? What about the very
small Wikipedias that get close to no traffic - is
setting more of them up really more important than
internationalizing Wiktionary in German and French?
Some Wikipedias have set up internal dictionaries due
to the wait.
I would love to help but I can't access the server yet
(I know this is on your very long ToDo list that every
body adds to so I haven't bothered you much about it).
Don't get me wrong - I deeply appreciate the work you
do and firmly believe that without you Wikipedia and
the other Wikimedia projects would be in sad shape due
to nearly constant server and software problems.
That doesn't mean they're _irrelevant_, and
I'd
appreciate an apology for the "chauvinism" comment.
It wasn't directed at you it was directed at the
Wikipedia-specific direction of the code and Jimbo's
apparent approval of that (the code part is not your
fault - or anyone's fault really - it is just the way
things developed).
All I want is for us to move in the direction of
making MediaWiki more usable for all Wikimedia
projects (something we /have/ been doing) - Jimbo's
first comment wasn't in that direction so I challenged
it since what Jimbo says is often seen as policy. But
if you were offended then I apologize. I most
certainly did not want to cause you any grief.
-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)
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