Op vrijdag 29 december 2006 00:41, schreef Brion Vibber:
It was meant to be a provocative opening statement, but it appears accurate based on your actions and words last night and you have not explained otherwise, so I continue to stand by these words.
Well, you did revert me on a Wikipedia where you are only a moderator because of technical reasons and since this was NOT a technical issue, I assume you also did not follow the book.
It's about free/open educational content. It's about making materials open and available for use by the public, including the creation of derivative works and redistribution.
Exactly, but you you miss the point completely Brion. It's advertisement at a location where the free content is CREATED, not redistributed/mirrored. Actually I don't care about if people make money with Wikipedia content, the same applies for Linux distributions, but we are talking about advertisement on the location where the content is created. That kills our reliability, so far we have that allready.
How? Please explain.
It's not about business-models, websites, but about the source off the free content. Any connection to what kind of company, religion, political party, government, whatever... will harm one of the basic principles of this great project.
How? Please explain.
Come on Brion, must I really explain this to you. I don't go that way with you. You should know WHY?
Perhaps you missed it, but the foundation came from the community and is made up of community members.
That's even worse.
Perhaps you missed the last six years solid, where there have always been disagreements within the community and communications problems between different parts of it.
Yes, so we should have learned from the past.
Me, I noticed. That's probably why I've been screaming for better organization and communication in this fundraiser debacle.
Good to hear that.
Communication is the #1 problem facing us. Do you believe the best response to this is to engage in edit wars?
I don't.
No I don't believe that, but sometimes things are more important than not doing anything.
That's probably why I'm posting here instead of dropping the nukes and blocking edit-warring sysops.
Well, that is one more credit for you.
What good would it do other than piss people off?
Nothing, so let stop us for now. I think everyone had made his/her point and I truly hope the communities are much better informed and involved the next time.
Jeroenvrp