Sorry, left this out: Frankly, the news story I want right now is "Jimbo Wales stripped of all priviledges on Wikipedia projects."
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Remove_Founder_flag#For_removal <- As does the majority of the users. On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 2:33 PM, Adam Cuerden <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
