[Foundation-l] Re: Interwiki Cooperation; NSK

Wed Oct 27 05:05:48 UTC 2004


Jens Ropers a écrit:
> NSK --
> 
> 1. You've just written a 694 word-strong reply. You have not however 
> answered the question whether you edit the Wikipedia and whether or not 
> you have an account. You wrote:
> 
>>> I don't really have enough time to edit much on Wikipedia.
>>
> Ok, so DO you or DON'T you edit? DO you or DON'T you have an account?
> 
> 2. Now correct me if I'm wrong:
> You're not actually contributing to the Wikipedia.
> You've not submitted any code towards MediaWiki development.
> You have however downloaded the MediaWiki software which was developed 
> "in this corner of cyberspace" (and you're permitted to do that).
> You've then set up your own website(s) with MediaWiki which you've 
> talked about, like, A LOT in your posts to our Wikimedia-related lists here.
> You have BIG PLANS for your website(s) but as of now little has 
> materialized. There don't appear to be much other contributors to your 
> wikis yet, besides yourself, yet you're kinda seeing your efforts as 
> somehow fully equivalent to what has happened "in our corner".
> Finally, you've ventured to advise us on what we really are and ought to 
> be (and you've persisted even when people made it very clear that they 
> perceived your advice as running counter to the very principles our 
> projects are founded upon).
> 
> 3. You suspect that people dislike you and that they do so because they 
> somehow don't want you to have your own wikis.
> Lemme put it like this:
> Imagine some person travelled to the U.S. Now imagine that it turns out 
> that that person didn't actually come as an immigrant, and didn't come 
> to settle in and become a citizen of the country but rather proceeded to 
> lecture the citizens of the U.S. that the Declaration of Independence 
> and all these old handwritten papers were fundamentally unimportant 
> because all men are not created equal and actually, certain people are 
> per se inferior and not to be trusted and it is ok to rape and murder 
> them and plunder their houses, whereas others are really not to be 
> blamed of anything of any consequence, whatever happens and, err... 
> actually...
> Ahem.
> Forget what I said. This last point I cede to you.
> 
> Thanks and regards,
> Jens Ropers


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