Makes interesting reading. Is there anywhere that we can read the IB vs "the volunteers" documents? Or are they not publicly viewable?
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On 6 September 2012 15:03, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 6 September 2012 14:53, Thomas Morton morton.thomas@googlemail.com wrote:
Everyone (including in the recent board statement) seems to be avoiding mention that this new travel site has come about due to Wiki Travel
admins
having an interest in moving away from IB, or that it will be seeded with Wiki Travel content. It seems intellectually dishonest to leave this out of public statements. It doesn't materially affect the issue - but it could well be seen as underhand by the cynical mind (i.e. if someone as suspicious as me, approaching this for the first time, later found out this fact it would certainly be an "aha" moment).
It certainly explicitly says just that all over the PDF. Did you read it, before asserting bad faith?
The blog post is somewhat wordy, but it does correctly note "The Wikimedia movement stands in the balance". I really don't think they're soft-pedaling this.
- d.
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