On 8/11/06, jkelly@fas.harvard.edu jkelly@fas.harvard.edu wrote:
... Is en a project where free culture advocates should expect to be mocked and invited to leave? Would there be any interest in creating a fork of en that uses unfree content only when absolutely necessary and in a way that such content could be easily stripped out for reusers? Is this local to en? Where is people's comfort level with emphatic disagreement over the issue?
I think that there is plenty of room for contributors to wikimedia projects who aren't interested in the potential for reuse of those projects, but I am wondering where en is at if admins are actively dissuading contributors who value it.
I don't think that en: -- or any Wikimedia project, for that matter -- should be a place where *any* good-faith contributor is "mocked and invited to leave." That the level of discussion here has descended to that -- and, in particular, that some of our admins seem to revel in driving people off the project -- can only be described as a disgrace.