"Erik Moeller" <erik_moeller(a)gmx.de> schrieb:
Jimmy-
I just wanted to say that I really strongly
support the central
ideas put forward by Erik here:
http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Commons
Thank you for your support. I would like to again invite all interested
parties (especially developers, but also writers, photographers etc.) to
add themselves on the above page, so that we can together move this
project forward after MediaWiki 1.3 has reached a stable state. As the
above proposal states, I hope that we can also implement single sign-on in
one fell swoop with the Commons itself, which would be one important step
to bring the individual Wikimedia projects closer together.
I am still willing to help and aid in this project. However, as things
look now, the only help I can offer you is to discontinue any plans I
myself have in this direction until you are ready.
One time there was just the English Wikipedia, then other languages
were made. I have the feeling that I'm like someone wanting to set
up another language and getting the answer that it's a good idea, but
that in half a year there will be a new software with language links
and the possibility to have an interface adaptable to languages, and
I just wait for that.
It's not that I don't like your plans. I do. And when the time
comes, I'll join in. For now I'll just count my losses. And wonder
why you might succeed and I do not. Is it because you are a
developer and I'm not? Because your plans are grand and mine
down-to-earth? Because I'm not brazen enough? Anyway, I lost.
Again.
Andre Engels