Stephen Gilbert wrote:
--- Daniel Mayer <maveric149(a)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