[Foundation-l] Fwd: [Wikipedia-l] Dutch chapter

Wed Apr 19 20:18:03 UTC 2006

Fruggo wrote:

>I believe Walter is right when he contradicts that there is a group of
>admins that act against the wishes of the community. When the first plans of
>a Dutch Wikimedia organisation were made I contributed to the discussions on
>the Dutch Wikimedia website and I went to a (the first?) meeting of people
>who were interested. It soon occurred to me that some people had very strong
>opinions on forming an organisation, and there was not many room for
>dissident opinions. I got the impression that many people thought that the
>organisation could/should have a say about the Dutch Wikipedia. I didn't
>like the way some people (who were intent on becoming a board member) seemed
>to force their opinion on others, so I backed out of the development of the
>organisation. I believe that the way dissident opinions were handled is now
>an important source of the fear of many Dutch Wikipedians that the Dutch
>foundation and association (but mostly the foundation, since that is the
>least democratic) will not listen to the Dutch community.
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>-Fruggo
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I totally agree with Fruggo here.

Waerth/Walter van Kalken