Joachim Kerschbaumer wrote:
translated: "Without a separate Organisation the German Wikipedia with all its Claims is condemned to fail anyway. Is there really not one?!!!"
Maybe with comments like this you can imagine how hard it is to tell people in Germany "Wikipedia is hosted in America"...
Come on Fantasy, Heinz is a known troll, don't take this serious.
But it is true that many German Wikipedias (and I'm one of them) think that things are evolving much too slow, and that there isn't much we can do about it. Our servers have been much too slow most of the time, but Ibiblio has offered to host parts of the project or the whole thing if we wanted. I'm sure others would also host Wikipedia with greatest pleasure. But Jimbo has rejected this offer. Now we are waiting for him to fill out the foundation's request for tax exempt status, to open a German/European bank account, to buy a new server, etc.
I know this sounds ungrateful, and I'm sorry for this. I adore Jimbo for what he has done, and I'm very thankful that he has spend so much money on the project. But it's also true that he's a bottle-neck like most benevolent dictators are.
Kurt