2008/5/23, Cary Bass cbass@wikimedia.org:
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Walter is tirless with the Wikizine and I know that his time is limited. ~ It's time we helped him find interested parties to help breathe new life into it.
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Hi Cary and all,
Thanks for this request for help. I just wanted to make clear that it is not directly a lack of time that is the problem. It is more a question being tired and disappointed that makes it difficult to keep putting energy in Wikizine.
I started Wikizine because I was displeased with the total lack communication to the community by the people in charge of the wikis at that time (this was pré WMF), the developers. So I wanted to do it myself. The idea was to create a framework with Wikizine and that then soon other people would join to help with it and that developers and other people in charge would report news, indented changes in advance to Wikizine. A central information exchange between all projects and languages.
It did not worked out this way. It remains a one person project and I can not say I get any cooperation at all form WMF-staff in a proactive manner. After several years it becomes more and more difficult to keep doing it this way. The Indonesian Wikizine editions is already closed. Spanish and especially German remains but are not stable.
Helping can by reporting news, especially from non-English wikis. http://report.wikizine.org And by helping actually creating a Wikizine edition http://meta.wikizine.org You find there are the also link to the editors mailing list.
Greetings, Walter