QUOTE(Moulton @ Tue 16th September 2008, 1:58am)
Just as AN/Moulton divided the WP community, Jimbo's ill-advised intervention in Wikiversity has widened a chasm that was already present at Wikiversity before WAS 4.250 and I arrived there in early July.
It's the same chasm I've characterized before, and it permeates the culture at large (not just WMF-related projects).
In some ways it resembles the divide between Galileo and Pope Urban, although I'm not about to write the kind of dialogue that got Galileo into hot water with the Inquisition.
For those of you with 300 edits here, there is much more detail posted in the Moulton Thread in the 300 Club.
Jimbo showed up on the Wikiversity-en IRC channel today and our dialogue there may or may not be Galilean or Pinteresque. But it's worth a read if you want to see a 63-yr old schmeggegy scientist from MIT and the Boston Museum of Science go up against the God-King of WMF.
I got a kick out of your exchange with Jimbo; reading it was well worth the time. I don't know enough to form an opinion on whether you should remain on Wikiversity, but I am certainly convinced that Jimbo is out of line in showing up on a project where he had never previously edited to unilaterally impose a ban. If the admins on Wikiversity are going to go along with that, they are only undermining their own community processes and discrediting themselves.