On 12/29/06, Michael Bimmler mbimmler@gmail.com wrote:
Okay. And sure you know how to get in contact with the whole community?
So a report from a certain portion might be useful ;) I would like to introduce another view we find on the community, I mean, a community of a certain language speakers as a part of the whole Wikipedia community; Japanese editors.
I have seen no complaint, no grudges anywhere as far as I know - on Village pump, mailinglist and some external usergroups. (I haven't access irc recently, but perhaps there was no reaction). Some was impressed by the generocity of Virgin and it is perhaps an exceptional reaction; It is obvious most of editors on the Japanese projects simply did not care for it. They have been fascinated in their daily concerns instead - editwar, disputes, votes and of course, editing articles.
What we as editors' community pursue here and now on the project is both sustainability and neutrality in my opinion, and I cannot think one time donation and one time expression of gratitude hurt the neutrality. If we were asked to make a favor to donors on our content, it were a serious damage, but here and now I haven't seen such threatening.