Milos says the point is to not boycott me, but he is clearly ignoring all of my e-mails, 100%.
On 13/11/05, Milos Rancic millosh@mutualaid.org wrote:
While Mark did irritated me (and as I did talk against some of Mark's foolish behaviour), I was never talking that Mark is the most important problem. The most important problem is community response about one hoax!
Right. The community, whose response was already enough that a Zlatiborian WP would never be created, BEFORE any non-Zlatiborian Serbians voted.
- Political decisions about some scientific (even sociological) fact
is very very bad. We should have comity for Wikipedias in new languages. (I.e., I hope that we would not make political decision that Earth is flat.)
In that case, quit saying how "nessecary" separate WPs in the (former) Yugoslavian "languages" are, since their separateness as actual languages is based entirely on political and social considerations rather than scientific.
- The most irritating and the most dangerous Mark's characteristic is
that he doesn't have responsibility about his steps inside of other cultures. Wiki(p|m)edian community is growing into global cultural movement and community response to such things should be strong: (1) while separatism and nationalism are far a way of the most of Westernernes, (2) while I left 10 years of my life inside of such bullshit and I am very nervous when someone attacks me on that field, (3) in some cultures this is the question of life and death. (Note that it can be something other then separatism and nationalism.)
...you're making a lot of assumptions about "Westernernes".
And about Mark: I am sure that some people know him better. Please talk with him. He has enough of time to change himself.
And I am sure that there are people who know you well enough to convince you to not talk anymore about what sorts of people should be killed or isolated from society for their opinions and expression of them.
Do you honestly think that by me supporting a Zlatiborian WP, Zlatiborians and Serbians will suddenly break out into war? Such wars do not happen just because a 16-year-old member of the Wikimedia community supports a new Wikipedia. And if they do, I don't think life would be much worth living anymore...
I mean, even if Jimbo Wales said that China sucks, the world is flat, and that South America should be nuked, that shouldn't start a war.
Mark
-- "Take away their language, destroy their souls." -- Joseph Stalin