Evan Prodromou wrote:
If German Wikipedians can and want to raise funds,
make decisions,
etc., for the German-language Wikipedia (tough beans for Austrians and
Swiss, btw), they should negotiate with Wikimedia to license the
Wikipedia name, transfer operations to another data center (or pay
Wikimedia for operating costs of de.w.o), and take
responsibility. It's pretty wishy-washy to try to have it both ways.
Jimbo, what are the operating costs of de.w.o? And what are the costs
for the whole project? I think it's pretty clear that keeping the
servers running is our top priority. Sorry if this wasn't clear in my
first mail.
(And sorry if other things weren't clear also. I spend about three or
four times more time on an English mail than on a German one, and still
I'm often uncertain if I got everything right.)
Kurt