[Foundation-l] This is not an Advertisement

[Andrew Gray]

On 29/12/06, Aphaia <aphaia at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12/29/06, Michael Bimmler <mbimmler at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Okay. And sure you know how to get in contact with the whole
> > community?
>
> So a report from a certain portion might be useful ;) I would like to
> introduce another view we find on the community, I mean, a community
> of a certain language speakers as a part of the whole Wikipedia
> community; Japanese editors.
>
> I have seen no complaint, no grudges anywhere as far as I know - on
> Village pump, mailinglist   and some external usergroups. (I haven't
> access irc recently, but perhaps there was no reaction).

Lots of reaction on IRC, from which it seemed the biggest backlash was
in it.wp and nl.wp, both of whom had some very vocal people coming by.

The Catalan wp responded to it in a rather delightful way, by taking
advantage of the presence of the "Day of the Holy Innocents" (Iberian
equivalent of April 1) to treat it all as a grand joke -
http://ca.wikinews.org/wiki/Imatge:Wiki-ca-Innocents.png is a copy of
the modified logo that went up, and both ca.wnews and es.wnews ran
news stories saying we were going to charge 20 EUR for editing and
float on the NASDAQ ;-)

> Some was
> impressed by the generocity of Virgin and it is perhaps an exceptional
> reaction; It is obvious most of editors on the Japanese projects
> simply did not care for it. They have been fascinated in their daily
> concerns instead - editwar, disputes, votes and of course, editing
> articles.

enwp was broadly the same. Some noise kicked up by people discussing
it freely and frankly, and a number who Didn't Like It One Bit, but
not really much above the usual level we have of people Very Upset
Over Something. Certainly no repeated editwarring to remove the
sitenotice, attempts to disrupt it in other ways, or having it occupy
the attentions of the entire project...

As to the "broader community", our readers - as of last night, when I
checked OTRS, I couldn't find a single complaint about it. I'm welcome
to corrections from anyone who talked to someone, but keyword
searching drew a total blank in the day's mail. And given the random
things that cause some of our readers to write and complain*, I think
that's a pretty good figure.

-- 
- Andrew Gray
  andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk

* Imagine our sillier deletion/pagename disputes, just even weirder