[Foundation-l] Ru.Wikibooks

Wed Jan 9 13:20:06 UTC 2008

Ramir is the only admin on ru.wikibooks and he has recently removed
the Wikimedia banners from that project, and then reverted once when
they were restored. This is the latest comment in a thread about this
issue:

Ramir writes:

This is comical. An appointed representative (i. e. you) of a
corporation (i. e. Wikimedia) is tactlessly suggesting that I (a
long-proven, devoted Wiki-education enthusiast with no interest for or
against the corporation) am biased. A mongrel mob of clueless,
faceless, foreign-speaking door-to-door salesmen have knocked on
Russian Wikibooks' door and, without ceremony, are accusing the
housekeeper of being "biased" against their T-shirt manufacturing
company. Just you all get out of here, pests. Go do some wiki work:
moving and deleting, putting templates, voting ― you are much better
at that than at marketing or any other form of socially constructive
work. As of the hosting company itself, I know enough about them (as I
mentioned, from my administrative correspondence with Angela Beasley,
Florence Nibart-Devouard and Guillome Paumier) to be disappointed. You
are not getting T-shirt orders from me. Nor from the people I drew to
the project, I am sure. Ramir 03:09, 8 января 2008 (UTC)

Clearly he is jaded against the Foundation and feels like his project
has been ignored. I wonder if there are other small projects with
similar feelings, and if there is something that can be done about it
before it gets to this point.

Nathan