On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 9:50 PM, Techman224 <techman...@techman224.com> wrote: > It has come to my attention that the Wikimedia Foundation through its "Office > actions" policy removed and oversighted the > signing keys for Texas Instruments calculators under a DMCA takedown notice > on October 7, 2009. Cary Bass then oversighted
Some random cryptographic signing keys are even less appropriate material for Wikipedia than the first ten-gazillion digits of pi or detailed instructions on compiling GCC. Wikipedia is not a dumping ground for your copyfight. There is plenty of reason to exclude this material regardless of the copyright/legal concerns, and plenty of other people hosting it elsewhere. Doubly true where the material is promoted with spammish efforts, like it has been with some of these cryptographic keys. The WMF should absolutely duke it out to protect material that ought to be in Wikipedia in accordance with the educational mission and community editorial guidelines. It ought not engage in fights outside of those areas for every instance of possibly suppressed legitimate speech that occurs on the Internet (even in cases where we all personally support the efforts). _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
