On 4/14/05, Erik Moeller erik_moeller@gmx.de wrote:
We can continue voting until we get a nice result, but I think it would be best now for the board to make a decision about this.
There's no consensus within the board either. In a discussion last month, Anthere said the Chinese community should decide, I said the whole community should decide, Tim Shell said it should be started, Jimbo said it shouldn't, and Michael Davis didn't respond to my email about it.
Considering the complete split of opinions, both in the original vote, the recent Chinese vote, and within the board, I think we need to consider alternative options to the simple question of whether we start it or not. One solution could be for Wikimedia to support the project being hosted elsewhere without it being an official Wikimedia project, if any of the supporters of the project wanted to find alternative hosting for it. It wouldn't be able to use the Wikinews trademarks, but would mean that those who want to work on it could do so, and if there is ever a consensus for the project within Wikimedia, we could move it back here then.
Angela