On 29/12/06, Jeroenvrp wikipedia@xs4all.nl wrote:
I will ask the Foundation to make an official excuse to the community about forcing these site notices and about not directly informing the communities.
The Wikimedia Foundation board has semi-regular elections. If you are unhappy with the decisions they make, vote differently next time. Don't blankly defy what they have decided on behalf of all Wikimedia projects, out of some misguided sense of self-importance. That will just get you emergency desysopped more quickly.
I asked you in IRC to explain why you were edit warring against the wishes of the Foundation, and you did not respond.
It's one thing to disagree with what the Foundation has decided to go with for this fundraiser. It is quite another to take it upon yourself to prevent the Foundation from implementing that decision on your local project. You should be taking a long, hard look at whether you can continue to participate in Wikimedia projects if you have such trouble accepting decisions of the Wikimedia Foundation, who it should not be forgotten have to pay all the bills.
~Mark Ryan