--- Erik Moeller erik_moeller@gmx.de wrote:
Anthere-
Please Erik, would you explain what you exactly
mean
by "the project leadership" ?
Currently the project leader is Jimbo Wales, in his absence represented by Magnus Manske. In the future there will possibly a Wikimedia board that can make decisions. For the remaining power structure, see
http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_structure
Regards,
Erik
So, to your opinion, Jimbo is the only one (currently, since there is no board yet) to have the power to say whether yes or no, an international wikipedia can have a logo not written in english, or have a different default skin (picked up in the list of all skins available for all wikipedias of course) ?
I am sure Jimbo would not try to "force" the current english logo over the non-english wikipedias, even if he is the "leader project".
Curiously, your arguments yesterday to say no to Rotem propositions were essentially technical. I agree with most of those arguments. We already have too much to do from a technical point of view to lose time with "development conflict".
I also naturally agree over the arguments having to do with NPOV, free encyclopedia, consensus, etc...
I am more dubious of the arguments given for not allowing non similar default skin for example. I maintain that very likely, a reader will limit himself "most of the time" to one language only. Hopefully, very soon :-), the encyclopedia will be big and complete enough to allow this. Hence, most readers will stay on the same language, and won't be disturbed. If they switch, they will perhaps not be "new" to wikipedia concept, hence be able to recognise the place.
As for editors, a default skin is no pb. If they want to edit several wikipedia, they just need to go to the prefs and set the same one.
as long as *all* skins are available to *all* wikipedias, I see not why we would make one wikipedia unhappy with refusing them something that appears to be no big deal.
Why would not we have a very simple skin as Rotem seems to suggest ?
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