[Foundation-l] Bunners at the bottom of every page

[Alex Smotrov]

I also hope, while we're on the subject, that some other ru.books
problems could be helped to solve:

1. 95% of seven hundred images do not have any description, meaning no
source and no license. When 3 weeks ago I pointed out at
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Licensing_policy and
the fact that other projects are busy tagging and deleting images,
Ramir's response was
"I'm concerned with something else: what's going to happen to
Wiki-sites (sooner or later)? Cause authors come, create educational
literature, and then anonymous fags day and night confidently delete
content with support of other useless fags from other end of a planet
- this is sick and needs to be cured."
http://ru.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?diff=25376&oldid=25368

In the following discussion he refused to do anything, even to add
some simple guide and the list of licenses onto [[Special:Upload]], so
at least new images maybe would have some description.


2. At the bottom of the Main page one can read
"==Sediment==
Do not repeat mistakes of sub-authors of sub-books:"
(and then goes the list of books deemed not good enough).
When I asked Ramir to remove this wording since 1)it's offensive, 2)I
didn't see him even trying to discuss possible improvements with the
authors, and then 3)another user expressed concern that this might
repel potential authors, Ramir's answer was: "When I see 5 complains
in writing from [[Авторы|useful contributors]] (that someone is
offended), I will replace the word "Sediment" with some other,
selected after a vote".
http://ru.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?diff=25823&oldid=25822
(The link "useful contributors" points at the page where some
"respectable authors" are listed.)


3. Everything else seems less important, mostly it's some weird
changes to protected pages. Requests to fix them are mostly ignored:

http://ru.wikibooks.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Mytalk tab at the top says
"Emails" instead of "My talk".

Recent changes pages is missing the line "Show minor edits | Show bots
| Hide anonymous users | Hide logged-in users | Hide my edits"

http://ru.wikibooks.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Article, which is supposed to
be the top tab "book" (or "module" like in en.books) is made into
simple "page", clearly to accomodate the fact that "Forum", "Help" and
"Authors" project pages are all located in the main namespace. Some
time ago a user from our Wikipedia tried moving these pages into
correct (project) namespace, the result was move protection and
indefinite ban for that user.

There are only 15 interwikis on the Main page, selected at Ramir's
will. When asked to add other interwikis, he responded with simple "No
need" and ignored all the further reasoning.
http://ru.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?diff=25558&oldid=25548

Sorry for the long post.