I would like it the other way:
Why should some minorities force a worldwide project to obay their point of
view regarding images or other controversial content?
Why should the german speaking community collect funds for this filtering and
hiding project?
Every community is free to discuss
The ugly content censors are raising their heads again.
Just stop it and dont spend any more funds on this.
I understand between the lines that it was stopped in order to protect the
fundraiser from unwanted discussions in the public.
Give as a clear message, that Wikipedia/Wikimedia will
It's been a requested feature for a while, Someone finally
got around to writing it
Who has asked for such a silly feature?
Every uploader sees the image he/she is uploading and has made the necessary
rotation beforehand.
But perhaps the same people that organized the Indian desaster or
... but -if we want to reach consensus[1]- what we really need to be
discussing is: screwdrivers.
sincerely,
Kim Bruning
No, we need to harden the wall agaist all attacks by hammers, screwdrivers and
drills.
We have consensus: Wikipedia should not be censored.
Scattered pieces
The only exeptable filter would be a _strictly_ personal one.
Stored on the users computer in an encrypeted file, which he can transfer from
one computer on his memorystick or CD to the other if logged in with the same
username, but not to be shared with others.
Never ever to be stored on any
On 10/29/11 12:40 PM, Gerard Meijssen wrote:
There have been LOADS of opportunities where the community
is asked, begged to be involved in what will be the way forward. The most
obvious opportunity has been the Strategy project. At this time the
Wikimedia Foundation is looking for all
Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2011 12:58:03 -0700
From: Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l]
The vote in German Wikipedia, and most of the discussions to
date, have focused on the specific ideas and mock-ups that
were presented as part of the referendum.
Erik,
You are
From: Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l]
The literal translation of what was being voted on:
Pers?nliche Bildfilter
(Filter, die illustrierende Dateien anhand von
Kategorien der Wikipedia verbergen und vom Leser an- und abgeschaltet
werden k?nnen,
Sue wrote:
It is asking me to do something.
But it is not asking me to do the specific thing that has
been discussed over the past several months, and which the Germans
voted against.
I may translate:
As the German community has voted against filters,
I was ordered to circumvent this vote by
