On Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 01:34:59PM -0400, Evan Prodromou wrote:
Mark Williamson said:
I find that horribly discriminatory.
I find it appropriately discriminatory. As a project, the Wikimedia Foundation has to apply some judgement about where to devote its physical resources and the time and effort of its volunteers. If we waste the time and energy of those volunteers for unimportant tasks, they won't come back.
You very well may disagree about what choices the Foundation makes. I'm just saying that it's a really big Internet, and that if you want to create a wiki that no one else wants, you can do that. You don't have to have the Wikimedia Foundation's machines and volunteers to do it.
I'm sure this discussion wasted a lot more machine resources and volunteers' time than establishing those few Wikipedias.