What I said by jurisdiction (and I meant jurisdiction) was not necessarily
the muli-lingual ones, but #wikipedia, #wikipedia-en, #wikipedia-social,
#wikipedia-overflow, etc. All those mainly English channels that feed off
of #wikipedia.
Mark has no interest in "ruling" anything, but what he needs to do is fix
the guidelines that the contacts set up for #wikipedia (and the ones I
mentioned). Now we believe the guidelines weren't working before and are
asking for more *community* help in developing new ones and altering the old
ones.
Casey Brown
Cbrown1023
-----Original Message-----
From: foundation-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org
[mailto:foundation-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Mark Ryan
Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2007 5:35 AM
To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] #wikipedia IRC channel guidelines review
On 31/07/07, Aphaia <aphaia(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Please answer my previous question: you are really in
the position of
ruling all wikipedia-xx channels?
I thought I did answer that question, here:
On 31/07/07, Mark Ryan <ultrablue(a)gmail.com> wrote:
People keep talking about this
"jurisdiction" thing. As I hope I've
made clear, I certainly don't subscribe to any such concept in
relation to #wikipedia, let alone other IRC channels.
In case that wasn't clear enough, I apologise. Let me put it this way:
I'm not in a position to "rule" any channels, especially ones like
#wikipedia-de which I so rarely visit. You might be confusing me with
JamesF and Seanw who are the Wikimedia contacts for Freenode, who do
broader stuff like you describe.
On 31/07/07, Aphaia <aphaia(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I mean, wikipedia-de, wikipedia-fr
or wikipedia-ja ...... in my observation most of those channels have
sane community, even not all, and I am afraid your claim for your
right of jurisdiction for wikipedia-* (it is a very strong assertion)
is too megalomaniac.
All we're talking about here is the single IRC channel #wikipedia,
nothing else. I simply invited (in my own kinda-human capacity) all
users of the #wikipedia-de etc. channels to talk about #wikipedia
because, in my view, it is a channel for all Wikipedias and all
languages, despite what some people would have. It's a big leap from
there to accusing me of megalomania and a bloodthirsty desire to
enslave the people of the French Wikipedia channel with new
guidelines.
~Mark Ryan
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