[Foundation-l] Call for a moratorium on all new software developments

Thu Sep 9 17:23:26 UTC 2010

So you're saying that the community is complicit in the agenda against 
itself? I guess we should just go back to the days when you had to 
record a half-hour recitation of the GFDL license text in every sound 
file hosted on Commons.

For the record, I was one of the community members on the License Update 
Committee (which was mainly comprised of community members, not 
Foundation employees).

Ryan Kaldari

On 9/8/10 10:19 PM, Teofilo wrote:
> 2010/9/7, Teofilo<teofilowiki at gmail.com>:
>    
>> 2010/9/7, Tim Starling<tstarling at wikimedia.org>:
>>
>>      
>>> Presumably this conspiracy would have to extend beyond the WMF to
>>> PediaPress and Purodha Blissenbach, the developers of Collection and
>>> mobile.wikipedia.org respectively.
>>>        
>> The absence of a history tab in the mobile format is in my view an
>> exact measurement of the temperature of the warmth of the relations
>> between the WMF and its contributors.
>>
>> Let's not call this a conspiracy. Philosopher Pierre Bourdieu  would
>> call it an unconcious strategy (1).
>>      
> The other reason why we can't call this a conspiracy is that a
> conspiracy is usually kept secret, while that agenda is known by a lot
> of people. They even managed to organise a vote and found a majority
> approving it at
>
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Licensing_update/Result
>
> The result is the adding of "You agree that a hyperlink or URL is
> sufficient attribution under the Creative Commons license" on every
> edit tab footer.
>
> The result is that it is thought that it is OK to distribute contents
> without the history tab, the author's names remaining in a format not
> readable on the device the user is using. So all these things are
> features of the new vastly known agenda. They are not bugs.
>
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