To clarify
I understand the forking discussion to mean soley forking the development of the Proofreadpage extension. This would result in two versions of the extension; each maintained by separate developers. The various Wikisource subdomains could each choose which version they wanted to have installed locally.
Birgitte SB
--- On Wed, 11/18/09, Klaus Graf klausgraf@googlemail.com wrote:
From: Klaus Graf klausgraf@googlemail.com Subject: Re: [Wikisource-l] Proofreading To: "discussion list for Wikisource, the free library" wikisource-l@lists.wikimedia.org Date: Wednesday, November 18, 2009, 11:43 AM There are NO considerations in the German Wikisource Community to fork in another way than technically, only regarding the Wikimedia Software.
We will definitively remain part of the Wikisource branches.
ThomasV has definitvely denied any cooperation with the German community. When choosen to administrator he had promised to make java script programming for the German community. In the now running deadministration process he has said that he is unwillingly to do so.
German Wikisource needs a developer with SVN access - that's the only solution IMHO.
Klaus Graf
2009/11/18 Jesse (Pathoschild) pathoschild@gmail.com:
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 10:29 PM, Cecil cecilatwp@gmail.com
wrote:
So this patch seemed like a great solution. It
would not change anything for
any of the other Wikisources (unless they want
it). But our programmer has
no access to SVN and can't upload the patch
himself and so we once again
stand in front of a block: ThomasV is not willing
to accept this patch
(which probably means that even if our programmer
would be able to update
the code ThomasV would revert the patch).
Hello,
I think this patch is a good solution. Ideally the
German community
should have a developer of its own, to help
de-Wikisource in the same
way ThomasV helps en-Wikisource. Have you asked
ThomasV if he would
apply (or at least not revert) the patch?
Communities should avoid forking when possible,
because this brings
many problems (such as needing to worry about
stability, hosting, ads,
funding, brand recognition, trademarking, etc) while
removing many
advantages (such as benefiting from Wikimedia
developers, sysadmins,
fundraisers, interwiki linking, brand recognition,
etc). Another
consideration is that if the German Wikisource forked,
it could no
longer call itself "Wikisource" since that name is
owned by the
Wikimedia Foundation. The community would also need to
find its own
developers anyway, when those persons could have
gained SVN access
with Wikimedia without all the problems associated
with forking.
-- Yours cordially, Jesse Plamondon-Willard (Pathoschild)
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