To clarify
I understand the forking discussion to mean soley forking the development
of the Proofreadpage extension. This would result in two versions of the
extension; each maintained by separate developers. The various Wikisource
subdomains could each choose which version they wanted to have installed
locally.
Birgitte SB
--- On Wed, 11/18/09, Klaus Graf <klausgraf(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
From: Klaus Graf
<klausgraf(a)googlemail.com>
Subject: Re: [Wikisource-l] Proofreading
To: "discussion list for Wikisource, the free library" <
Date: Wednesday, November 18, 2009, 11:43 AM
There are NO considerations in the
German Wikisource Community to fork
in another way than technically, only regarding the
Wikimedia
Software.
We will definitively remain part of the Wikisource
branches.
ThomasV has definitvely denied any cooperation with the
German
community. When choosen to administrator he had promised to
make java
script programming for the German community. In the now
running
deadministration process he has said that he is unwillingly
to do so.
German Wikisource needs a developer with SVN access -
that's the only
solution IMHO.
Klaus Graf
2009/11/18 Jesse (Pathoschild) <pathoschild(a)gmail.com>om>:
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 10:29 PM, Cecil
<cecilatwp(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
> So this patch seemed like a great solution.
It
would not change anything for
> any of the other Wikisources (unless they
want
it). But our programmer has
> no access to SVN and can't upload the
patch
himself and so we once again
> stand in front of a block: ThomasV is not
willing
to accept this patch
> (which probably means that even if our
programmer
would be able to update
the code
ThomasV would revert the patch).
Hello,
I think this patch is a good solution. Ideally the
German community
should have a developer of its own, to help
de-Wikisource in the same
way ThomasV helps en-Wikisource. Have you asked
ThomasV if he would
apply (or at least not revert) the patch?
Communities should avoid forking when possible,
because this brings
many problems (such as needing to worry about
stability, hosting, ads,
funding, brand recognition, trademarking, etc)
while
removing many
advantages (such as benefiting from Wikimedia
developers, sysadmins,
fundraisers, interwiki linking, brand
recognition,
etc). Another
consideration is that if the German Wikisource
forked,
it could no
longer call itself "Wikisource" since
that name is
owned by the
Wikimedia Foundation. The community would also
need to
find its own
developers anyway, when those persons could have
gained SVN access
with Wikimedia without all the problems
associated
with forking.
--
Yours cordially,
Jesse Plamondon-Willard (Pathoschild)
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