On Monday 11 November 2002 09:39 pm, wikipedia-l-request@wikipedia.org wrote:
Well, folks, I've had enough for now. I can't continue these conversations, because they are taking far too much of my time; I couldn't do them justice if I wanted to. You also won't see me much anytime soon on Wikipedia itself. I really do apologize to those (few, no doubt) who thought I was a positive influence recently. I wish I had the time, energy, and patience to continue, and I hope you'll keep fighting the good fight.
I will continue to work on Sifter-l, though.
Larry
There were a hell of a lot of posts on Monday but that was probably due to en.wiki being down and everybody flooding the mailing list because they didn't have anything else to do. I'm sorry to hear that you are leaving wikipedia proper but the fact that you are concentrating your efforts now on the Wikipedia subset project more than makes up for your leaving.
One thing that Wikipedia lacks right now is credibility and reliability. One thing that projects like Nupedia has is a lack of material and contributors. The new project you are working on will add credibility to many Wikipedia articles and thus dramatically improve their usefullness.
I look forward to working with you on this project (I'm not leaving Wikipedia though - I really like to dabble in areas I don't have much formal training in).
Regards,
Daniel Mayer (aka mav)