[WikiEN-l] Invited by admin to leave en if concerned about free reusability

[Kirill Lokshin]

On 8/11/06, jkelly at fas.harvard.edu <jkelly at fas.harvard.edu> wrote:
> ... Is en a project where free
> culture advocates should expect to be mocked and invited to leave?  Would there
> be any interest in creating a fork of en that uses unfree content only when
> absolutely necessary and in a way that such content could be easily stripped
> out for reusers?  Is this local to en?  Where is people's comfort level with
> emphatic disagreement over the issue?
>
>  I think that there is plenty of room for contributors to wikimedia projects
> who aren't interested in the potential for reuse of those projects, but I am
> wondering where en is at if admins are actively dissuading contributors who
> value it.

I don't think that en: -- or any Wikimedia project, for that matter --
should be a place where *any* good-faith contributor is "mocked and
invited to leave."  That the level of discussion here has descended to
that -- and, in particular, that some of our admins seem to revel in
driving people off the project -- can only be described as a disgrace.

-- 
Kirill Lokshin