"Erik Moeller" erik_moeller@gmx.de schrieb:

Jimmy-

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I just wanted to say that I really strongly support the central ideas put forward by Erik here: http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Commons

Thank you for your support. I would like to again invite all interested parties (especially developers, but also writers, photographers etc.) to add themselves on the above page, so that we can together move this project forward after MediaWiki 1.3 has reached a stable state. As the above proposal states, I hope that we can also implement single sign-on in one fell swoop with the Commons itself, which would be one important step to bring the individual Wikimedia projects closer together.

I am still willing to help and aid in this project. However, as things look now, the only help I can offer you is to discontinue any plans I myself have in this direction until you are ready.

One time there was just the English Wikipedia, then other languages were made. I have the feeling that I'm like someone wanting to set up another language and getting the answer that it's a good idea, but that in half a year there will be a new software with language links and the possibility to have an interface adaptable to languages, and I just wait for that.

It's not that I don't like your plans. I do. And when the time comes, I'll join in. For now I'll just count my losses. And wonder why you might succeed and I do not. Is it because you are a developer and I'm not? Because your plans are grand and mine down-to-earth? Because I'm not brazen enough? Anyway, I lost. Again.

Andre Engels