[Foundation-l] Ru.Wikibooks

Wed Jan 9 23:23:11 UTC 2008

Hoi,
You are right, I read this incorrectly. Sorry.
Thanks,
     GerardM

On Jan 9, 2008 11:23 PM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 09/01/2008, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Jan 9, 2008 6:39 PM, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On 09/01/2008, Nathan <nawrich at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > > 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.
>
> > > Not really. People are never going to react well to "we are from the
> > > foundation and are here to help". Smaller projects are always to an
> > > extent going to attract the outcasts from other projects. Sometimes it
> > > works out sometimes it does not.
>
> > I resent the notion that people form smaller projects are outcasts. What
> > happened to assume good faith ?
>
>
> 1., that's not what Geni said. 2, where's yours?
>
> We do see a lot of people who don't fit in well at en:wp going to tiny
> projects. Sometimes it works out well, sometimes it doesn't. But
> claiming it's an assumption of bad faith to note the phenomenon is
> just silly, and claiming that noting the phenomenon is a statement
> that all people from smaller projects are being called outcasts is a
> failure of logic (A c B does not imply B c A) and reading on your
> part.
>
>
> - d.
>
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