[Foundation-l] Re: Wikijunior - Wikispecies, Mk 2?

[Anthere]

I would like to perhaps make a comment on it, which I hope you will not 
find rude.

One of the mission of the board is to find money. This money is not 
meant to party, it is meant to make the project work and proceed.

One of the way we can do this is by going for grants.

As such, some dedicated users who care for the project and want it to go 
forward (in this case Danny, who is NOT a member of the board) are using 
their free time and energy to ask for grants.

Some foundation offered us money to us, for a project that many editors 
found great. So, we accepted.

Danny wrote a proposal here : http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikijunior
And invited people to register. And several people already gave their 
support. As far as I can see, no one opposed. I do not even see your 
opposition.

You are most welcome to discuss the issue over there.

Rebecca a écrit:
> The minutes of the last board meeting suggested that money was being
> accepted to found a Wikijunior project. Now, while I can understand
> that it wasn't entirely initiated by the board, being approached by an
> outside foundation at all, it seems that once again, it's been decided
> at a board-level, and there's going to be no discussion in the
> community as to whether we actually should have a Wikijunior project
> at all. If I remember correctly, this has been discussed many times
> before - and has not generally received a good response. Yet now I
> hear that it's going ahead anyway.
> 
> I just hope that this isn't going to be a repeat of the Wikispecies
> saga. If we are going to fork the project,  it is not that hard to
> throw together a proposal, ala Wikinews - or at least publicly discuss
> the darn thing first.

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikijunior

> -- ambi