Oh, come on, that is ridiculous.
It's not as if the Board voted to accept a Zlatiborian Wikipedia.
Just because there is a proposal, and a handful of people support it, that's a really bad reason to threaten such a thing.
And don't tell me this isn't a threat -- it very clearly is. You're hoping that by doing this, somebody "official" will get worried and intervene re: Zlatiborian.
That's very... well, it's not a nice tactic.
If you guys decide not to participate in Wikimedia, then perhaps you should remove your votes from Requests_for_new_languages? You can't have it both ways, man.
Mark
On 06/11/05, Milos Rancic millosh@mutualaid.org wrote:
Here are some conclusions according to recent events (questionable reliability of Wikimedian projects) and to meeting of the part of members of Initiative for Wikimedia Serbia and Montegro:
- As the part of Wikimedian community supports hoaxes (i.e.
"Zlatiborian language") we are considered that such cases (not only related to Serbian/Croatian/Bosnian languages area) can make completely damage to relevancy of Wikimedia and her projects.
- We completely understand that Wikimedian projects are not only WMF
Board's projects, but the projects of Wikimedian community. According to that, we worry that recent events are not isolated cases, but the important rule in Wikimedian community. Because of that we understand that our involvement, as organization in the future, in Wikimedian project assumes that we support such kinds of scientific and social irresponsibilities. And we are not ready to do that.
- Only because of the fact that our meeting was just the meeting of
the part of Initiative for WM SCG, we didn't make any decision. As we would have Founding Assembly in two weeks, as our first meeting with full number of members from now, we would make decision then.
- Decisions can be: (1) We would a "full" local chapter (i.e., like
German Chapter is) with the name "Wikimedia Serbia and Montenegro" or (2) we would not be a "full" local chapter, but only a friendly organization which can behave like an Wikimedian local chapter (with different name then "Wikimedia Serbia and Montenegro"). _______________________________________________ Wikipedia-l mailing list Wikipedia-l@Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l
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