[Foundation-l] Re: [Wikinews-l] Chinese Wikinews: board action required

Sun Apr 17 18:10:43 UTC 2005

Angela a écrit:
> There's no consensus within the board either. In a discussion last
> month, Anthere said the Chinese community should decide, I said the
> whole community should decide, Tim Shell said it should be started,
> Jimbo said it shouldn't, and Michael Davis didn't respond to my email
> about it.

I hope everyone appreciate that even among 5 people, we were not able to 
  have one common position ;-)

> Considering the complete split of opinions, both in the original vote,
> the recent Chinese vote, and within the board, I think we need to
> consider alternative options to the simple question of whether we
> start it or not. One solution could be for Wikimedia to support the
> project being hosted elsewhere without it being an official Wikimedia
> project, if any of the supporters of the project wanted to find
> alternative hosting for it. It wouldn't be able to use the Wikinews
> trademarks, but would mean that those who want to work on it could do
> so, and if there is ever a consensus for the project within Wikimedia,
> we could move it back here then.
> 
> Angela

Hmmmm. Yeah. But I am not sure it would be credible.