On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 11:58:33PM +0200, Kim Bruning wrote:
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 03:50:55PM -0500, Tempodivalse wrote:
Greetings everyone,
Heya Tempodivalse,
I understand that a lot of this fork is due to personality conflicts, rather than with WMF itself? That's be a bit of a <phew> to know WMF weren't the folks causing the trouble.
<Tempodivalse> OK, well, the primary reasons for us forking were that we did not like the attitudes that en.wikinews regulars had. <Tempodivalse> and that we felt instruction creep had taken over the project, bringing excess bureaucracy <kim_bruning> was there no way to break off without forking? <Tempodivalse> No. I don't want to bash anyone in particular, but the remaining admins/crats are generally very wary to any proposed changes <Tempodivalse> and tend to regard non-Wikinewsies as people whose opinions are to be discounted as uninformed <Tempodivalse> A few days ago I pointed out the project had reached record-low activity levels and held them for six months - and was shouted down <Tempodivalse> nobody seemed to realise there was a problem, much less address it.
(posted with permission)
sincerely, Kim Bruning