Can this just not stop? From what I can see, Larry worked for Jimmy at Bomis. Together they worked on Wikipedia, but with Larry coming up with the idea & being the main driving force behind it to start with. But he was an employee of Bomis. Everyone knows that you once described each other as co-founders & therefore, if that's what Jimmy described you as back then, that's what you are. He could just as easily have described you as an employee of the finder & would be entitled to as you were the employee & he can take the credit.
Why the continuous childish bickering-everyone knows what happened & it makes absolutely no difference now. Please just get over it, it's damaging Wikipedia itself, which I don't think Larry wants to do, & just seems so pointless. That's my ten cents! On 09/04/2009 16:21, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen wrote: > Larry Sanger wrote: > >> All, >> >> Earlier today, I had no joy in trying to post this "open letter to Jimmy >> Wales" on Jimmy's own user talk page: the man himself deleted it. That is >> not the sort of behavior I would have expected of the head of an allegedly >> open, transparent community devoted to free speech. >> >> > <snip> > > >> I came up with and promoted the idea >> of making a wiki encyclopedia, wrote the first policy pages and many more >> policy pages in the following year, led the project, and enforced many rules >> that are now taken for granted. I came up with a lot of stuff that is >> regarded as standard operating procedure. For instance, I argued that talk >> should go on talk pages and got people into that habit. Similarly, after >> meta-discussion started taking up so much of Wikipedia's time and energy, I >> shepherded talk about the project to meta.wikipedia.org - and after that, to >> Wikipedia-L and WikiEN-L. I insisted that we were working on an >> encyclopedia, not on the many other things one can use a wiki for. >> > Putting aside for the moment, the rest of your missive of quite > respectable length; if you do deserve kudos for creating the > very first heuristics for channeling discussion to appropriate > fora, it is sadly regrettable that you were not able to choose > the initial forum where you published your diatribe with more > discernment. > > User talk pages in current practice are not for blogging or > personal communication (except to the extent that such > personal communication is in the aid of cementing the trust > and fellow feeling contributors have with each other, and > thus helps our work as a community). User talk should be > squarely about improving the encyclopaedia. > > You may not have taken the trouble to acquaint yourself > with the methods by which legitimate feedback and comment > on wikimedian matters is currently channeled, but it would > very much be worth your while, to facilitate a smoother > communicative experience. > > > Yours, > > Jussi-Ville Heiskanen > > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
