On Tuesday 26 October 2004 22:26, David Gerard wrote:
what was your Wikipedia username again?
The reason I have not answered that question is because it was first asked by a person who offended me ("as faulty as your logic", 23 October 2004). Although I have ignored his e-mail address, thanks to your webarchive it came to my attention that he repeats his attacks: http://mail.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2004-October/031751.html
Please note that I am a bit touchy and any kind of personal attack is not compatible with my culture and my education. I have no problem with people who disagree with me, but I have zero tolerance for things who engage in personal attacks.
That said, I also don't understand why I need to answer this question. Is it some kind of policy in Wikipedia to say your user names in emails? I notice many people post without mentioning their usernames and I wonder why you picked me specifically.
Do you in fact edit on Wikipedia at all?
Does it matter? I cannot understand why you ask this question. Are your mailing lists restricted only to your members? I don't think so, because it was very easy for me to register (if that's not the intended behaviour, you need to configure your Mailman installation).
You can find me in many mailing lists or fora, including FSF-GNU/GNOME/CC/AMD, and I am lurking on many other mailing lists and communities, while I have also joined projects such as Drupal.org and OpenFormats.org and very soon I will join KDE. Slashdot has published stories written by me (KDE/FSF's WIWO...) and my karma there is Good. My university dissertation is on wikis. I notice some people refer to me as "he/she" and I wonder whether they have noticed who am I.
I was lurking here for some time before I decided to start posting, so I had accumulated many possible suggestions and ideas about Wikipedia. Since I decided to start posting, I started remembering whatever I had thought about all that time, so perhaps some people disliked me because of the initial quantity of my postings. Although I have already asked whether anybody wants me to stop posting, nobody said something like that, so I understand that I should be welcome here - but I still notice that some participants seem to dislike me and I cannot understand why.
I don't really have enough time to edit much on Wikipedia. I have my own projects and soon/hopefully will have my own nonprofit organisation. So, although my community website now is still very new (just opened this August, but already serving more than 65 thousand hits per month), it will certainly become very known and important in the near future. My interests in the Wikipedia community are mostly establishing public relations, helping each other to improve our community policies and sharing software development tips and practices. I mostly want communication with Wikipedia decision makers, the Board and the development team, so that we can find ways to cooperate as independent separate projects. So, I think it should be obvious that I participate in your mailing lists as a representative of a friendly website which seeks to have relations, cooperation and knowledge sharing with Wikimedia. But if WMF does not wish to cooperate or thinks I am a "competitor", then you can just say so and I will leave.
I suspect that some people may dislike me because I have my own wikis. Please try to understand that I am not a "competitor" of Wikipedia. I have written interesting articles under the GFDL that you can copy if you like (by providing proper attribution under all the terms of GFDL - please include the authors' names in the article). See for example this article of NerdyPC.org, my knowledge base wiki on computer hardware and the Information Technology industry: http://nerdypc.wikinerds.org/index.php/AMD_Opteron - note the most recent version under development is at http://nerdypc.wikinerds.org/index.php/Test:AMD_Opteron
Finally, I would like to know how we can implement interwiki links to each other and whether WMF is interested in this kind of linking.