On 13/01/2008, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 13/01/2008, Lars Aronsson lars@aronsson.se wrote:
I'm personally quite happy with the current situation. So far the board hasn't made any major mistakes. The servers are running and everybody should be happy. If the board would go mad, we do have copies of the database dumps and the right to fork. If the board would want to run away with the money, there is very little to run away with, and this is a safeguard in itself.
The en:wp and Commons image dumps are still iffy, but this has the devs' attention as important :-)
One of the best protections we have against the Foundation being taken over by insane space aliens is good database dumps.
Nonetheless a serious effort at a fork of a major project would be the biggest failure I can imagine in Wikimedia - and that includes if Knol is a raging success. It would be comforting to have mechanisms to trigger before the all-out blaze.
regards Brianna