[Foundation-l] New project proposal - Wikibuilder

[Robin Shannon]

The Toki Pona debate (somehow) completely passed me by. So if in 3
years time the number of Toki Pona articles rivals the number of
artciles in the klingon or lojban wikipedias, and the number of Toki
Pona speakers had increased, and there was resonable community support
for the Toki Pona wikipedia to move back in to the foundation this
would be allowed?

On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 07:35:18 -0800, Jimmy (Jimbo) Wales
<jwales at wikia.com> wrote:
> Robin Shannon wrote:
> > i remember you saying on several occasions that you wanted to keep
> > your stuff (bormis, wikia, wikicites, <anything else i might not know
> > about>) and wikimedia seperate.
> 
> Yes, this is legally and ethically necessary.
> 
> > I also remember you saying that you did not think that it would be
> > appropriate for other wikis started elsewhere to merge with, or
> > become part of the wikimedia family.
> 
> No, I did not say that.  It will depend on the circumstances, the
> nature of the project, the judgment of the community, and the judgment
> of myself and the other board members.
> 
> I have a strong ethical obligation to the Wikimedia Foundation, and
> nothing I do will compromise that, this was my point.  I don't want
> wikicities to compete with or fork anything that's more suitable for
> the foundation.  And I would like to make wikicities available to help
> resolve problems within the foundation (for example, providing a home
> for communities like tokipona, which although perfectly fine in and of
> themselves, have been judged to be inconsistent with our overall
> language policy).
> 
> --Jimbo

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