On 29/12/06, Aphaia aphaia@gmail.com wrote:
On 12/29/06, Michael Bimmler mbimmler@gmail.com wrote:
Okay. And sure you know how to get in contact with the whole community?
So a report from a certain portion might be useful ;) I would like to introduce another view we find on the community, I mean, a community of a certain language speakers as a part of the whole Wikipedia community; Japanese editors.
I have seen no complaint, no grudges anywhere as far as I know - on Village pump, mailinglist and some external usergroups. (I haven't access irc recently, but perhaps there was no reaction).
Lots of reaction on IRC, from which it seemed the biggest backlash was in it.wp and nl.wp, both of whom had some very vocal people coming by.
The Catalan wp responded to it in a rather delightful way, by taking advantage of the presence of the "Day of the Holy Innocents" (Iberian equivalent of April 1) to treat it all as a grand joke - http://ca.wikinews.org/wiki/Imatge:Wiki-ca-Innocents.png is a copy of the modified logo that went up, and both ca.wnews and es.wnews ran news stories saying we were going to charge 20 EUR for editing and float on the NASDAQ ;-)
Some was impressed by the generocity of Virgin and it is perhaps an exceptional reaction; It is obvious most of editors on the Japanese projects simply did not care for it. They have been fascinated in their daily concerns instead - editwar, disputes, votes and of course, editing articles.
enwp was broadly the same. Some noise kicked up by people discussing it freely and frankly, and a number who Didn't Like It One Bit, but not really much above the usual level we have of people Very Upset Over Something. Certainly no repeated editwarring to remove the sitenotice, attempts to disrupt it in other ways, or having it occupy the attentions of the entire project...
As to the "broader community", our readers - as of last night, when I checked OTRS, I couldn't find a single complaint about it. I'm welcome to corrections from anyone who talked to someone, but keyword searching drew a total blank in the day's mail. And given the random things that cause some of our readers to write and complain*, I think that's a pretty good figure.