On 3/30/06, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Certainly. Have meta and enjoy it as a separate
community increasingly
unusable by any other, as is working so well for Commons, rather than
the service project it purports to be; just stop representing it as
such, because it simply isn't.
Am I right in feeling that a lot of your frustration here, David, is
that you feel that Meta and Commons were not supposed to be
'communities' at all? That they were supposed to be shared project
space and managed as such?
-Matt
Your comment reminds me of several disagreements which boiled up with
wikibooks. Last summer, a few users started kicking off wikiversity out
of wikibooks quite vigorously. More recently, it was the Wikimania
proceedings.
And actually... Robert made a comment where I really think he had a
point. He said he had the feeling some of us could not easily accept
that there was a community on wikibooks, that people outside wikibooks
could not just do of Wikibooks whatever they felt like. He insisted that
the project had its own community and its own rules. Which is true. We
tend to forget this. The weight of the big Wikipedia brother :-(
Ant