[Wikipedia-l] Re: Status of Wikimedia

Tue Nov 8 08:32:11 UTC 2005

Elisabeth Bauer wrote:

> If someone wondered lately why there's almost no elian anymore around in 
> Wikimedia affairs, that's why.
> 
> I went back to the real thing, the encyclopedia in my language - which 
> is nor Bavarian, neither Münchnerisch although I am from this region and 
> city but german, a language almost everybody in Germany speaks and is 
> able to understand (except he's maybe turkish or serbian or arabic). 
> There's still a lot of work to do even if some newspapers rate us 
> already as better than brockhaus.
> 
> Tell me when you've stopped discussing and voting on genial new projects 
> and obscure dialects, when you've kicked the language fanatics from the 
> mailing lists, when you've closed the unwatched spam traps, when you've 
> settled on a checkuser and logo policy, when someone has had the guts to 
> introduce single login instead of just talking about it and when you are 
> serious about this human knowledge thing.
> 
> good bye,
> elia
> n

Hmmmmm.
Well, while I echo your sentiments up to a certain point, I also think 
you are amongst those who put her feet in the sand and stay anchored in 
the real very much. You are of unvaluable help for all these press 
things, the documentation and presence at conferences and so on. So, 
certainly, you going away is not helping and rather giving more power to 
those who are more "dispersed" than you are.

This said, we need all types of people, the dreamers and irrealistic 
ones as well, as they also have strikes of wisdom sometimes :-)

(pretty tired) Anthere

PS : a comment about the checkuser policy. Afaik, it is done. I asked 
comments a week ago, and though Taw has not removed the fact he thought 
it "terribly dangerous", I read no real opposition to it and several 
supports.