On 10/23/05, Delirium delirium@hackish.org wrote:
Daniel Mayer wrote:
Excuse me? What do you base that on? Are you at all involved in Wikimedia finance? Lemme check. No.
Excuse me? When did Wikimedia finance get run in a top-down corporate manner? Are you a CEO now, and we're all your paid employees? You realize this is a volunteer encyclopedia project, don't you, and we decide what's important? If this is going to become a "Wikimedia corporate decides what's important, and you all better shut up and listen and not complain about it", then fuck this, I'm out.
Let's not get angry over this. I trust Mav and I think he's being doing a great job, and I'm certainly appreciative of his efforts. I just don't think we should go the advertising route as once you come to rely on it you're screwed. I'd hate to see Wikipedia (and to tell the truth I don't think the rest of the projects are going to get anywhere anytime soon) degenerate into ads just to stay alive. I'd much rather see it become read-only most of the time, and only allow editing like a random hour each day if necessary.
-- Dori