So it sounds like
respect is also centralized in the wikimedia foundation, please include me in your email to your underlings Tim, as I would also like to have respect, maybe it will mean my request for image dumps is taken seriously!? It would be nice if respect was earned, but it sounds like Tim can create/enforce respect in a more simple way, sounds like a good leadership path to me.. NOT! :)
Has it occurred to you that maybe the one person in charge of both dumps and media storage is a busy person who also happens to be on vacation right now?
Hi,
No, but you bring up a good point, having a single person in charge of both of these departments is not working very well, since the "department of image dumps" hasn't actually released any publicly available image dumps in 4+ years, and the "department of xml dumps" has only released a single successful* full history dump of enwiki in 3+ years.
*only partially successful as some of the revision history is missing from the dump
cheers, Jamie
Roan Kattouw (Catrope)