On Wednesday 27 October 2004 04:26, Jens Ropers wrote:
DO you or DON'T you edit?
Define edit.
DO you or DON'T you have an account?
Define account.
You're not actually contributing to the Wikipedia.
Define contributing.
You've not submitted any code towards MediaWiki
development.
No, I haven't. I would be willing to do that, though.
You have however downloaded the MediaWiki software
Yes. Thank you for making available this software.
You've then set up your own website(s) with
MediaWiki
Yes. They are
NerdyPC.org (Information Technology),
Adapedia.org (Computer
Science),
Jnana.Wikinerds.org (a playground),
MaatWorks.Wikinerds.org
(software engineering). In the future I will set up wikis on Science Fiction,
Biology, Law, OpenSource et cetera.
I have paid money for all that. I can use 80GB of monthly traffic (to be
upgraded today).
talked about, like, A LOT in your posts to our
Wikimedia-related lists
If you like you can ask me to not talk about my wikis here.
Wikipedia is the largest wiki and I think its mailing lists are useful for
general discussion and not only just WP.
You could open a discussion(a)wikipedia.org mailing list for general wiki
discussion.
You have BIG PLANS for your website(s)
Yes.
but as of now little has materialized.
The
Wikinerds.org endeavour was started this August. I think I am building it
pretty fast!
There don't appear to be much other contributors
There are some people who are interested and some people have user accounts in
the Wikinerds Portal (drupal), Jnana and NerdyPC.
Not counting myself:
3 users in
portal.wikinerds.org
1 user in
nerdypc.org
1 user in
jnana.wikinerds.org (plus 1 anon)
1 user in
forum.wikinerds.org
0 users in
adapedia.org
0 users in
maatworks.wikinerds.org
0 users in
collab.wikinerds.org
0 ftp users (which means no userpages)
0 email users (we can give free POP emails @wikinerds.org)
Well, as I said, Wikinerds started in August! It's a new site.
besides yourself
I am currently the only person who contributes content to the Wikinerds
Community.
yet you're kinda seeing your efforts as
somehow fully equivalent to what has happened "in our corner".
Well, perhaps I need some more sleep (sometimes I don't have sleep for >24h).
I checked some of my previous posts and I think I was a bit wrong in some
occasions. Perhaps it would be a good idea to develop an e-mail protocol with
a "CANCEL MSG" command.
Certainly, Wikinerds is not as successful as Wikipedia, yet, although it will
soon be very successful.
Finally, you've ventured to advise us on what we
really are and ought
to be
Just sharing ideas. You are free to send me your ideas about my projects, too.
I will read them all and reply. I love sharing ideas, even if I disagree with
some of them!
(and you've persisted even when people made it
very clear that
they perceived your advice as running counter to the very principles
our projects are founded upon).
I am sorry; my mistake.
Imagine some person travelled to the U.S.
Isn't it more beautiful to write US ? I mean, is the point really necessary?
to settle in and become a citizen of the country but
rather proceeded
to lecture the citizens of the U.S. that the Declaration of
Independence and all these old handwritten papers were fundamentally
Is Wikipedia a big Imperium?
to be blamed of anything of any consequence, whatever
happens and,
err... actually...
Ahem.
Forget what I said. This last point I cede to you.
[CENSORED]. I cannot answer to that, sorry!
--
NSK
Admin of
http://portal.wikinerds.org
Project Manager of
http://www.nerdypc.org
Project Manager of
http://www.adapedia.org