[Foundation-l] Re: Wikimedia Communs

Michael Snow wikipedia at earthlink.net
Tue May 25 03:55:57 UTC 2004


>
>
>> 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
>
>André. Pause réflexion. Un vrai leader évite de
>perpétuellement marcher sur les pieds des autres. Il
>leur laisse de la place pour s'exprimer, parfois même
>il s'efface pour laisser les autres s'occuper d'un
>projet qui leur tient à coeur. Il évite de créer des
>rancoeurs :-) Enfin, juste ma triste opinion. ant
>
C'est bien de voir que tout au moins quelqu'un se souvient de la liste 
correcte pour discuter ces sujets. Est-ce que tous les autres oublient 
parce que en ce moment Jimbo ne reçoit pas les messages de cette liste-ci ?

--Michel Neige
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