[Foundation-l] Deletion of Wikibooks content by Jimbo
Brian
brian0918 at gmail.com
Fri Nov 25 16:08:22 UTC 2005
Well, as long as you're not over-dramatic abou...
Robert Scott Horning wrote:
> I've already complained about what Jimbo has been doing on Wikibooks,
> so this isn't news.
>
> Several of the Wikibooks that Jimbo was complaining about were deleted
> by him with the admin status he gave himself. That by itself is OK,
> but he did it with a total disregard to the fact that ongoing
> community discussion about the modules is going on, and a complete
> ignorance of what it means to delete a Wikibook in its entirety.
> Deleting Wikibooks is a very involved process, and removing
> [[b:Jokebook]] is going to be something that will take several hours
> to complete by a competent admin and deleting the front page is only
> going to make things worse.
>
> I don't want to get into an edit war with of all people Jimbo himself,
> but this IMHO has gone way too far. If he wants to serve some sort of
> political agenda and disregard the genuine efforts of the community
> that is building Wikimedia projects like Wikibooks, so be it. He can
> write everything himself there if he wants to as well.
>
> So long Wikimedia and all of the people here. I have tried. I hope
> things improve for the better in the future.
>
> I hereby resign my position as admin on Wikibooks and I anticipate
> that I will be banned there as well. Good luck in the future in ever
> trying to find people to keep this project going.
>
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