Frankly, the news story I want right now is "Jimbo Wales stripped of all priviledges on Wikipedia projects."
On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 2:29 PM, Adam Cuerden <[email protected]> wrote: > Way to go. You pulled a media stunt and alienated your volunteers who > actually do the work, because you care more about an extremely > conservative television station in America than the worldwide audience > Wikipedia serves and which is the primary source of donations to the > project. > > > > On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 2:28 PM, Adam Cuerden <[email protected]> wrote: >> The correct storyline is that Mr. Wales caved to the slightest bit of >> media pressure and engaged in full-out censorship of artworks and >> diagrams, showing that anyone who wants to get something removed from >> Wikipedia just has to threaten Mr. Wales. >> >> This was a disgraceful action, made all the more disgraceful by you >> not being honest as to the reason for your actions up until now. You >> kept the media pressure secret from the community, and claimed it was >> a legal issue. >> >> Disgraceful! >> >>> Date: Sat, 8 May 2010 17:19:58 +0400 >>> From: Victor Vasiliev <[email protected]> >>> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Where things stand now >>> To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List >>> <[email protected]> >>> Message-ID: >>> <[email protected]> >>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 >>> >>> On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 5:08 PM, Jimmy Wales <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> We were about to be smeared in all media as hosting hardcore pornography >>>> and doing nothing about it. >>> >>> Do you understand that not all images you deleted were hardcore pornography? >>> What was the reason of wheel warring on them? >>> >>> --vvv >>> >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------ >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> foundation-l mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l >>> >>> >>> End of foundation-l Digest, Vol 74, Issue 28 >>> ******************************************** >>> >> > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
