2006/7/9, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@gmail.com:
Hoi, When a message has nothing specific about the nl.wikipedia, and both messages are good. It makes absolute sense to remove the local messages because this allows for upgrades when they happen for a message. I do not agree that he necessarily did wrong, quite to the contrary, I see ample room for it having been a great piece of work. Now, what does it take for people to first learn about the why, what and how WITHOUT feeling this need to start "educating"? Please assume that things are done in good faith.
Bad things can be done in good faith. A person who makes changes to hundreds of system messages at once, should in my opinion first consult the community to ask whether this is wanted. In this case the community was not even *informed* in advance. If messages have been changed on NL-Wikipedia, this might well have a good reason. And even if it is not, then at least some discussion before doing things like this on a large scale rather than on a few pages requires discussion first.
WikipediaNL, like the great majority of non-English Wikipedias, has strong feelings about its independence. Whether that's right or not, forcing things onto a local wiki is not the way things should work within Wikimedia.
The fact that several people comment does not necessarily imply that something is wrong.
The fact that one person does it does not necessarily imply that it is right either.