--- Daniel Arnold arnomane@gmx.de wrote:
Am Mittwoch, 26. Dezember 2007 22:21:10 schrieb Luiz Augusto:
Soundlessly, some folks are missing what are
exactly Wikimedia versus local
communities issue:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposals_for_closing_projects/Radical_clean
up_of_Volapük_Wikipedia
Once more:
- This is not about deleting vo.wikipedia
- This is not about denying the right of a Volapük
Wikipedia
This is *only* about the way choosen to create the Volapük Wikipedia. This is about changing this unhealthy way that severely harms all other Wikipedias (not only wih Interwiki spam to useless bot articles). This is about a bad habbit of edit cheating others have done prior. Volapük Wikipedia simply went to far down this road to perdition. No other Wikipedia contains nearly 100% bot generated content.
The protest here is that you should have no say in the way chosen to create the Volapük Wikipedia. If Volapük Wikipedia is valid community, then they are free to create their project by any method that works for them. If it is not a valid community, then the WMF should close the project. This is a bright line. There is no basis for outsiders to dictate how a local community goes about it's work excepting for violations of the foundation principles ("free as in freedom", Neutral Point of View, "anyone can edit"). This new kind of micromanagment you have proposed has nothing to do with a foundation principle as far as I can tell. I personally find your proposal out of line and if it succeeds, I agree that it will be "A dangerous precedent".
Birgitte SB
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