Evan Prodromou wrote:
If German Wikipedians can and want to raise funds, make decisions, etc., for the German-language Wikipedia (tough beans for Austrians and Swiss, btw), they should negotiate with Wikimedia to license the Wikipedia name, transfer operations to another data center (or pay Wikimedia for operating costs of de.w.o), and take responsibility. It's pretty wishy-washy to try to have it both ways.
Jimbo, what are the operating costs of de.w.o? And what are the costs for the whole project? I think it's pretty clear that keeping the servers running is our top priority. Sorry if this wasn't clear in my first mail.
(And sorry if other things weren't clear also. I spend about three or four times more time on an English mail than on a German one, and still I'm often uncertain if I got everything right.)
Kurt