[Foundation-l] a new free image!

Thu Mar 1 21:06:56 UTC 2007

On 3/1/07, Robert Horning <robert_horning at netzero.net> wrote:
> GerardM wrote:
> Yeah, I guess I was living under a rock or something here myself.  This
> is a very new philosophy coming out that the board is going to be very
> directly involved with "global" policies that directly affect the
> content of each project.  The idea that each one of the 200 or so
> "active" Wikimedia projects will each have to submit some sort of "EDP"
> to legal counsel, overcoming language and local legal issues too, seems
> to be something so absurd as to be unworkable as well.
>

So set up 3-4 basic ones they can chose from/

> This top down attitude is something that I'm not very comfortable with,
> particularly when we are mainly dealing with voluntary community leaders
> here, especially when it comes to working with the nearly 5,000
> individual administrators who would bear the brunt of trying to
> implement both the culling of this content and watching over individual
> projects to make sure this sort of content doesn't creep back in.  I'm
> guessing that it is this group to whom the policy is really going to
> matter anyway.  All of these admins, with perhaps a few exceptions, are
> the most experienced of Wikimedia users and are largely the ones who
> perform the day to day tasks that make the projects what they are.
> Certainly they are helping to build the infrastructure and other aspects
> of the projects that help support content development.
>

I suspect quite a few of them would be relived they don't keep having
to fight simply to prevent policy allowing even more unfree content.

-- 
geni