2012/1/18 David Gerard dger...@gmail.com:
On 18 January 2012 08:15, Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com wrote:
A one-off black-out, yes. Repeated black-outs, no. I would hope most
Wikipedians would oppose anything like this happening again in the
near future, if only because this strategy
On 01/18/12 12:54 AM, David Gerard wrote:
On 18 January 2012 08:15, Carcharothcarcharot...@googlemail.com wrote:
A one-off black-out, yes. Repeated black-outs, no. I would hope most
Wikipedians would oppose anything like this happening again in the
near future, if only because this strategy
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 3:05 PM, Nathan nawr...@gmail.com wrote:
Now that we have taken the necessary first step to regard the English
Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects as high-profile platforms for
political statements, we ought to consider what other critical humanitarian
problems we
On 18 January 2012 08:15, Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com wrote:
A one-off black-out, yes. Repeated black-outs, no. I would hope most
Wikipedians would oppose anything like this happening again in the
near future, if only because this strategy becomes less effective the
more it is
Now that we have taken the necessary first step to regard the English
Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects as high-profile platforms for
political statements, we ought to consider what other critical humanitarian
problems we could use our considerable visibility and reputation to
address. We
On Tue, 17 Jan 2012, Nathan wrote:
There are so many good candidates, in fact, we will need some way of
narrowing them down. A SOPA protest fits a somewhat narrow range - a United
States law that could effect a Wikimedia project.
There you go. I don't see the point of coming up with a whole
I can. You're displaying the literal-mindedness that's too common
on Wikipedia: everything has to be reduced down to a rule which something
either passes or fails and there's no such thing as nuance. The correct
answer is that while many things affect Wikipedia, not everything affects
On Tue, 17 Jan 2012, Nathan wrote:
There are so many good candidates, in fact, we will need some way of
narrowing them down. A SOPA protest fits a somewhat narrow range - a United
States law that could effect a Wikimedia project.
All that prevents us from sharing knowledge should be protested.
