Jimmy Wales wrote:
On 9/7/11 9:15 AM, Milos Rancic wrote:
I think that damage produced by this<whatever> should be localized. The target is English Wikipedia, Board is not especially interested in other Wikipedia editions and other projects in English; which means that it should be localized on English Wikipedia.
Milos, you are way out of line here. The board is not especially interested in English Wikipedia, and indeed, very little of our discussion of this feature has any particular relevance to English Wikipedia.
It's not out of line to suggest that Wikimedia is especially interested in the English Wikipedia. It's _indisputable_ at the Wikimedia Foundation level. Whether it's as true at the Wikimedia Board level is a bit more arguable, though there's a good deal of evidence to suggest that it's equally true there. A cursory look at the Wikimedia Board resolutions is pretty damning.
When the Wikimedia Foundation places the English Wikipedia on a pedestal and treats all other wiki projects/families as peripheral, it's not at all unexpected that occasionally people will vent frustration at this.
MZMcBride