--- Daniel Mayer <maveric149(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
Here is a run-down of what I feel should be the
ground rules for negotiation.
I think such a negotiation would go much better if we
were at least in the process of setting up a
non-profit free encyclopedia foundation. Otherwise,
the perceptions that the American megacorporation
Bomis intends to turn Wikipedia into a vast
money-making empire will remain.
What we concede;
1) Make sure this is done in Spanish
2) Ask them what we need to do in order to get them
back into the Wikipedia
community.
3) Promise that we will never have any ads.
4) We will strive to make Wikipedia as
non-U.S./English-centric as possible
and ask them what we should do in order to
accomplish this.
5) Explain the benefits of being part of the more
general Wikipedia community
(inter-language links that work both ways, funding,
publicity, cross-traffic
and cross-collaboration and contributions)
6) State that we have no intention of ever removing
es.wikipedia.com but we
could point that URL to the Seville server is they
wish to stay on that
server.
7) Make .org the default for all language projects. I
realize that this means getting Phase III rolled out
on all the Wikipedias, as the internal link names need
to be changed.
What we want;
1) Have them formally rejoin our project by changing
their primary name back
to Wikipedia or a convenient Spanish version of that
word ("Huiquipedia"
maybe).
2) For them to use Phase III software.
3) Provide inter-language links to all Wikipedia
language projects.
4) For them to use Intl-wiki-L.
5) Update their about page to remove misleading
statements about Wikipedia,
especially the English Wikipedia.
6) To integrate the articles at
es.wikipedia.com with
their own.
What would be nice;
1) For them to return to our server.
If negotiations break-down;
We set-up
es.wikipedia.org with Phase III and ignore
EL. OR
We set-up
es.wikipedia.org with Phase III and
provide el: inter-language
links to their project.
I vote for option 2 in this case.
Stephen G.
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