Stephen Gilbert wrote:
--- Daniel Mayer maveric149@yahoo.com wrote:
This especially seems true for the English Wikipedia where there is/are (and I roughly quote); article censorship and fear of censorship, where administrators harass contributors and delete pages (stated in a way that suggests this is a form of excessive censorship), and where those same administrators block pages from being edited (again suggesting that this is some kind of unfair censorship).
It looks like the accusations of censorship are based on a page thrown up by Simon J Kissane (http://www.geocities.com/sj_kissane/). There was a messy incident a while ago which prompted him to create this page. They seem to be taking it as an example of an ongoing policy of censorship, unfortunately.
I looked over this site and traced all the links. It is very unfortunate that all of acknowledgment of Simon's contributions appear to have been wiped out by script transfer of content between software phases. For someone not familar with the GPL issues Wikipedia has been grappling with and the loss of accreditation information across the board this could easily look like selective censorship.
I want to see the two Spanish projects merge once again. I think working to set up the non-profit organization would be a big step in the right direction.
Stephen G.
It might also help to document in detail the effort necessary and sufficient to successfully install and setup a mirror server or fork. That way they would know that if the merge did not work out well they could easily reestablish the separate project with an enhanced database.
I have a spare system that I could use to attempt this and document the process in detail. This would be viable for me only if the software developers deem it worthy of some serious coaching. My familarity with Linux is sketchy and with CVS/SQL close to nil.
regards, Mike Irwin