[Wikipedia-l] Spanish Wikipedia; Negotiation

[Stephen Gilbert]

--- Daniel Mayer <maveric149 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Here is a run-down of what I feel should be the
> ground rules for negotiation. 

I think such a negotiation would go much better if we
were at least in the process of setting up a
non-profit free encyclopedia foundation. Otherwise,
the perceptions that the American megacorporation
Bomis intends to turn Wikipedia into a vast
money-making empire will remain.

> What we concede;
> 1) Make sure this is done in Spanish
> 2) Ask them what we need to do in order to get them
> back into the Wikipedia 
> community.
> 3) Promise that we will never have any ads.  
> 4) We will strive to make Wikipedia as
> non-U.S./English-centric as possible 
> and ask them what we should do in order to
> accomplish this. 
> 5) Explain the benefits of being part of the more
> general Wikipedia community 
> (inter-language links that work both ways, funding,
> publicity, cross-traffic 
> and cross-collaboration and contributions)
> 6) State that we have no intention of ever removing
> es.wikipedia.com but we 
> could point that URL to the Seville server is they
> wish to stay on that 
> server.

7) Make .org the default for all language projects. I
realize that this means getting Phase III rolled out
on all the Wikipedias, as the internal link names need
to be changed.

> What we want;
> 1) Have them formally rejoin our project by changing
> their primary name back 
> to Wikipedia or a convenient Spanish version of that
> word ("Huiquipedia" 
> maybe).
> 2) For them to use Phase III software.
> 3) Provide inter-language links to all Wikipedia
> language projects.
> 4) For them to use Intl-wiki-L.
> 5) Update their about page to remove misleading
> statements about Wikipedia, 
> especially the English Wikipedia.

6) To integrate the articles at es.wikipedia.com with
their own.

> What would be nice;
> 1) For them to return to our server.
> 
> If negotiations break-down;
> We set-up es.wikipedia.org with Phase III and ignore
> EL. OR
> We set-up es.wikipedia.org with Phase III and
> provide el: inter-language 
> links to their project.

I vote for option 2 in this case.

Stephen G.

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