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
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