Difference between pages "Starting Abstract Wikipedia" and "Tim Bray leaving Amazon in protest"

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Tim Bray, co-author of XML, stepped down as Amazon VP over their handling of whistleblowers on May 1st. His post on this decision is worth reading.

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-I am very happy about the Board of the Wikimedia Foundation having approved the proposal for the multilingual Wikipedia aka Abstract Wikipedia aka Wikilambda aka we'll need to find a name for it.
+[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Bray Tim Bray], co-author of XML, stepped down as Amazon VP over their handling of whistleblowers on May 1st. [https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2020/04/29/Leaving-Amazon His post on this decision] is worth reading.
-In order to make that project a reality, I will as of next week join the Foundation. We will be starting with a small, exploratory team, which will allow us to have plenty of time to continue to socialize and discuss and refine the idea. Being able to work on this full time and with a team should allow us to make significant progress. I am very excited about that.
-I am sad to leave Google. It was a great time, and I learned a lot about running *large* projects, and I met so many brilliant people, and I ... seriously, it was a great six and a half years, and I will very much miss it.
-There is so much more I want to write but right now I am just super happy and super excited. Thanks everyone!
-* [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Abstract_Wikipedia Abstract Wikipedia on Meta]
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