[Foundation-l] Priorities

[Ray Saintonge]

James Forrester wrote:
> On 22/10/2007, Marc Riddell <michaeldavid86 at comcast.net> wrote:
>   
>> on 10/22/07 6:19 PM, GerardM at gerard.meijssen at gmail.com wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> I agree with your sentiments. However, this is the Foundation list and it is
>>> largely an English language Wikipedia phenomena. I do not feel that it is an
>>> issue that I should deal with because I am not really connected to what
>>> happens on the English language Wikipedia. Even though it is "not good"TM it
>>> is not something that feels like "us" to me. It is you lot of the English
>>> language Wikipedia that have to deal with it.
>>>       
>> We in the English Wikipedia do have a lot of our act to clean up.
>>     
> Absolutely.
>
> However, I think it is fair to say that if the toxicity of the English
> Wikipedia at this point is so great as to impact on the Foundation
> (e.g. on the Foundation's ability to raise money), then that is
> definitely a matter for the list.
>
> If necessary, the Wikimedia community at large will have to take
> action to "fix" the English Wikipedia community - but "coup" is such
> an ugly word. :-)
The most frightening implication in what Gerard says is that some 
smaller projects might take the behaviour on the English Wikipedia as a 
role model.

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