Doubleplusgood for DaB staying in the fight for another round!!!
On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 12:49 AM, DaB. <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello all, > Am Sonntag 25 November 2012, 23:44:05 schrieb DaB.: > > I have not decided yet if I will remain as root under this circumstances > > for 2013 – I will tell you my decision until next Sunday. > > I promised you a decision until Sunday and while it is not Sunday anymore > where I live, for many of you still is. > First of all I would like to thank all people who have sent me emails: > Thanks. > > During the last week I thought about my decision several times and to be > honest I switched from staying to leave and back several times. > The toolserver consumes a big part of my free time and so the idea of > leaving > was alluring. It would also de-stress me, because I would not longer need > to > argue with people from WMDE and WMF. Maybe even the personal relationship > with > some people of WMDE would normalize again. > On the other hand the toolserver is a important project into which I > invested > much time already. Many people would dislike me if I go down without a > fight > too. The toolserver is also important for WMDE and its relationship to WMF > – > even if most people do not see that at the moment. > Another path of thought was optimism versus pessimism. The pessimist in me > says, that it is very sure that WMDE will find a cheap way out in 6 months > when > it becomes clear that WikiLabs can not replace the toolserver – but I have > no > proof for that. The optimist in me says that that is most likely but it > COULD > be that WMDE is fair and the 6 months of waiting are worth that. > The third point is the question of motivation. I really like to help > people – > that's the reason I started editing and sysoping in Wikipedia 9 years ago. > The > idea that the toolserver helps people to do their work is the basic > motivation > for me to administrate the toolserver. But when you know that all you do is > for the birds because some other people decided that the toolserver is not > welcome anymore that's not very motivational. Than again helping people for > 6-12 months is better than nothing. > The forth, least significant and last point is the question of pride. > Leaving > would be a form of loosing; WMDE and WMF would win. I don't like loosing > and I > prefer to fight till the end for normal. > > To summarize (people who scrolls down to find the result should stop > here): I > will stay for another 12 months and see where it goes. The toolserver and > you > all are worth my time, the toolserver is still helpful, and there is always > the possibility that WMDE will do a fair decision in summer. The way will > be > rocky and I'm sure that we will see some drawbacks. > > Good night everybody. > > Sincerely, > DaB. > > > > > -- > Userpage: [[:w:de:User:DaB.]] — PGP: 2B255885 > > _______________________________________________ > Toolserver-l mailing list ([email protected]) > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/toolserver-l > Posting guidelines for this list: > https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Mailing_list_etiquette >
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