Jussi-Ville Heiskanen wrote:
On 1/12/08, Lars Aronsson lars@aronsson.se wrote:
In my naïve and limited view of this world, the Wikimedia Foundation works just fine. The servers are running and everybody should be happy. You might want to explain why I'm wrong.
You will excuse me if I think your language is a bit rich, coming from a person who led a fork - albeit a friendly one - very early in the history of wikipedia, and pretty figuratively at the drop of a hat.
Oh, if you want to discuss my person, please do, but isn't that a bit off topic here? Yes, I try to stay friendly. I haven't led any fork, but I have started my own parallel projects in a couple of instances: Project Runeberg is my Scandinavian e-text project, Elektrosmog.nu was my Swedish free wi-fi mailing list, and susning.nu is/was my Swedish non-encyclopedic wiki website. Even if these would have been forks, that's nothing wrong. I think more people should start projects, so we can have an exchange of actual experience. For example, Wikisource is picking up many of my ideas from Project Runeberg. There's no conflict there.
However, now we were discussing what so wrong with the Wikimedia Foundation. My impression is that most things are fine, but you don't seem to agree? I don't believe in "radical" transparency in the sense some people have expressed their wishes here. Maybe that's why I'm not disappointed. I like to think I'm realistic.
I'm on the board of Wikimedia Sverige, the newly established Swedish chapter, and we're working on how to promote and advance WMF projects and free knowledge in Sweden, but I'm on this mailing list as a private individual.