Hoi, I am getting more and more annoyed with the people that are not thinking constructively about what is at stake. The Wikimedia Foundation is not only about Wikipedia. Wikipedia is not only about the en.wikipedia. Our growth is increasingly NOT in wikipedia and certainly not in the en.wikipedia. The funding is about ebabling what already exists for the English people interested in encyclopedic information.When you do not log on, you get excellent info and response in English.
The other resources need to be build up, this attitude of what do we need it for is discriminatory. If it intended as such fine. If you think that we can grow in quality and quantity without ever increasing amounts of money you have not followed things. We are talking about growth on a scale where marginal changes will atrackt us more money, but not on the scale that is needed.
I am on record that with Ultimate Wiktionary in full production with full features for one year, it will be as big as Wikipedia was in August 2005. Now in order to make that possible, money and major amounts of money will be involved. When this money is to be raised through the standard Wikimedia ways, it would not be possible because it would drain the money away from Wikipedia. So please tell me if you have constructive ideas on how to make this happen.
I am also on record that we can find the money for these things.. As much as you do want things to stay the same, I want to see change because it is only now that we are aproaching the tipping point where we are in a position to make many of the things possible.
People who know me, now that I do almost everthing to have the things I believe in come true. They also know that i will not squander away the values of what we stand for. When some person aggresively removes these links, I will be sorry for the narrow mindedness that it demonstrates. It must also be an admin to do this, I will wonder to what extend this behaviour will be mitigated by him finding the funds that are lost to the rest of us. This is the least I would expect of someone who is this position of responibility.
Thanks, GerardM