[Foundation-l] How SOPA will hurt the free web and Wikipedia

Wed Dec 14 23:11:57 UTC 2011

The poll hit a community of many tens of thousands. So...

Tom Morton

On 14 Dec 2011, at 23:10, Mateus Nobre <mateus.nobre at live.co.uk> wrote:

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> 87% is more than sufficient.
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> En.wikipedia (not that one, I'm native of ptwiki and I voted in it too) it's like a whole country.
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> It's simple impossible to reach a consensus in a place where have 500 people voting.
> Sometimes polls are the only way. I'm not saying the best. It's the only.
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>> Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 23:00:38 +0000
>> From: dgerard at gmail.com
>> To: foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org
>> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] How SOPA will hurt the free web and Wikipedia
>>
>> On 14 December 2011 21:57, Kim Bruning <kim at bruning.xs4all.nl> wrote:
>>> On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 05:43:03PM +0000, Thomas Dalton wrote:
>>
>>>> Presumably
>>>> there will be a more formal process to decide whether we actually go
>>>> ahead with it - has that started somewhere? If not, has anyone at
>>>> least figured out what form that process will take?
>>
>>> Strictly speaking, the straw poll there is sufficient, unless people bring
>>> up true blockers.
>>
>>
>> The poll is at 87% or so (taking a straight count of support vs.
>> oppose from the page). Should it be considered sufficient to
>> demonstrate overwhelming consensus, the precise course of action has
>> not AFAIK been determined.
>>
>>
>> - d.
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