On 23 Feb 2011, at 20:21, Bryan Tong Minh wrote:
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 9:02 PM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 23 February 2011 19:48, Daniel Schwen lists@schwen.de wrote:
Boils down to my main point (don't worry David Gerard did not read it either):
For someone going on (and on) about how thick-skinned everyone else should be, you're remarkably thin-skinned yourself.
(This is, of course, a frequent pattern amongst those who think others should be less sensitive to the speaker's incredible rudeness.)
Since personal attacks appear to have become acceptable on this list, let me get down to that road as well.
Your rude dismissal of any ideas that you do not agree with will not improve Commons and refusal to discuss them in any other way than attacking the person stating them, does not help this discussion, and is wasting time of many people, so please stop commenting on this mailing list.
That really isn't helpful, and definitely is not acceptable, neither here nor anywhere else on Wikimedia. Please focus on the point: how do we make Wikimedia Commons friendlier, and generally increase the number of both contributors and administrators on the project?
One potential improvement could be getting bot messages translated and made friendlier via translatewiki.net, so that the burden of maintaining all of the different language versions of the same message is taken off the bot writer and given to translators in a central location. I'm not sure if Gerard Meijssen is on this mailing list - I've cc'd him in the hope that he can provide input on this.
Thanks, Mike