Thread:User talk:Kephir/ it-noun/reply

As far as I understand it, there is one regular editor of Italian, and he agreed to the change. In fact, he was the initiator of the idea. Why should they not go for it?

And why would I care about your opinion about the content of this particular change? Because this is the only thing that should matter. Like I said, this community is so small that we just cannot afford to ostracise people based on some vague notion of "consensus". We have to focus on merits, not on procedures. This is the same type of bullshit I am so sick of seeing on Wikipedia, and that has driven away some of their best editors. (Good thing we do not link each other to essays reminding us to "assume good faith". No Arbitration Committee here either. Yet. Thank goodness.) But for them, this is often a necessity. For us, it would be a detriment. So if you object to these edits based on their merits, or you want an explanation, then skip the introductions, go ahead and talk about that. But if you only want to bicker about Consensus™ and Due Process™, then I shall tell you to [insert gross expletive here].

As for mirrors, I am not sure what generalist means in this sentence, but I think this should not be much of a problem for them. MediaWiki is free software, this wiki is free content, dumps are freely available, all modules can be read. They may download and adapt it however they please. I guess they will probably have to batch-process and transform/extract things from markup along the way regardless.