The Toki Pona debate (somehow) completely passed me by. So if in 3
years time the number of Toki Pona articles rivals the number of
artciles in the klingon or lojban wikipedias, and the number of Toki
Pona speakers had increased, and there was resonable community support
for the Toki Pona wikipedia to move back in to the foundation this
would be allowed?
On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 07:35:18 -0800, Jimmy (Jimbo) Wales
<jwales(a)wikia.com> wrote:
Robin Shannon wrote:
i remember you saying on several occasions that
you wanted to keep
your stuff (bormis, wikia, wikicites, <anything else i might not know
about>) and wikimedia seperate.
Yes, this is legally and ethically necessary.
I also remember you saying that you did not think
that it would be
appropriate for other wikis started elsewhere to merge with, or
become part of the wikimedia family.
No, I did not say that. It will depend on the circumstances, the
nature of the project, the judgment of the community, and the judgment
of myself and the other board members.
I have a strong ethical obligation to the Wikimedia Foundation, and
nothing I do will compromise that, this was my point. I don't want
wikicities to compete with or fork anything that's more suitable for
the foundation. And I would like to make wikicities available to help
resolve problems within the foundation (for example, providing a home
for communities like tokipona, which although perfectly fine in and of
themselves, have been judged to be inconsistent with our overall
language policy).
--Jimbo
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