[Foundation-l] foundation-l Digest, Vol 74, Issue 28

Sat May 8 13:34:27 UTC 2010

Sorry, left this out:

 Frankly, the news story I want right now is "Jimbo Wales stripped of
all priviledges on Wikipedia projects."

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Remove_Founder_flag#For_removal
<- As does the majority of the users.

On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 2:33 PM, Adam Cuerden <cuerden at gmail.com> wrote:
> Frankly, the news story I want right now is "Jimbo Wales stripped of
> all priviledges on Wikipedia projects."
>
> On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 2:29 PM, Adam Cuerden <cuerden at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Way to go. You pulled a media stunt and alienated your volunteers who
>> actually do the work, because you care more about an extremely
>> conservative television station in America than the worldwide audience
>> Wikipedia serves and which is the primary source of donations to the
>> project.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 2:28 PM, Adam Cuerden <cuerden at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> The correct storyline is that Mr. Wales caved to the slightest bit of
>>> media pressure and engaged in full-out censorship of artworks and
>>> diagrams, showing that anyone who wants to get something removed from
>>> Wikipedia just has to threaten Mr. Wales.
>>>
>>> This was a disgraceful action, made all the more disgraceful by you
>>> not being honest as to the reason for your actions up until now. You
>>> kept the media pressure secret from the community, and claimed it was
>>> a legal issue.
>>>
>>> Disgraceful!
>>>
>>>> Date: Sat, 8 May 2010 17:19:58 +0400
>>>> From: Victor Vasiliev <vasilvv at gmail.com>
>>>> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Where things stand now
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>>>> On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 5:08 PM, Jimmy Wales <jwales at wikia-inc.com> wrote:
>>>>> We were about to be smeared in all media as hosting hardcore pornography
>>>>> and doing nothing about it.
>>>>
>>>> Do you understand that not all images you deleted were hardcore pornography?
>>>> What was the reason of wheel warring on them?
>>>>
>>>> --vvv
>>>>
>>>>
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