Wouldn't an RFC on meta be the appropriate channel to voice both issues? http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/RFC
On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 4:45 PM, Virgilio A. P. Machado <[email protected]>wrote: > Pedro, > > Sorry, I didn't mean to confuse you or anybody. I thought people > knew. It's the Brazilian Portuguese Wikipedia. Unfortunately, despite > all most pious statements to the contrary, the uncontroversial truth > is that a small group of 16 editors decided that all titles of > articles and titles and content of Wikipedia pages would be > "translated" into Brazilian Portuguese starting January 1, 2009. > Since that time there is no longer a Wikipedia that a Portuguese can > read without being full of gramatical mistakes. Think about what good > that is for the children, the elderly, and the low educated > Portuguese speaking population. Hey! I got my first block > ( > http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usu%C3%A1rio_Discuss%C3%A3o:Vapmachado#Bloqueado > ) > for trying to write these Wikipedia pages > ( > http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usu%C3%A1rio:Vapmachado/Artigos_e_Coment%C3%A1rios_04#P.C3.A1ginas_do_espa.C3.A7o_Wikipedia > ) > the same way as ALL my students. Kind of hard to deny based on that > evidence, isn't it. There's more to that block than this, but this is > already a long answer (always my problem) to a very short question. > At least I expect to have been thorough. Any other question, please > don't hesitate. You can always contact me in private so that we will > reach a consensus out of the limelight. > > Sincerely, > > Virgilio A. P. Machado (Vapamchado) > > > At 23:59 06-12-2010, you wrote: > >On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 5:41 PM, Virgilio A. P. Machado <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Adam, > > > > > > What a timely post. What an opportunity to test the Santa Claus > > > hierarchical structure. > > > (...) > > > If you do succeed in bringing any change to Commons through this > > > request of yours, I will follow with a similar one of my own > > > concerning the Brazilian Wikipedia, whose de facto "president" > > > (...) > > > Sincerely, > > > > > > Virgilio A. P. Machado (Vapmachado) > > > > > > > > > >is that br.wikipedia.org or.. is there a new wiki I don't know of? > >(I'm sorry to be so ignorant) > > > >_______________________________________________ > >foundation-l mailing list > >[email protected] > >Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > > > Prof. Virgilio A. P. Machado [email protected] > Engenharia > Industrial > http://web.archive.org/web/20070824105539/www.ipei.pt/GDEI/ > DEMI/FCT/UNL Fax: 351-21-294-8546 or 21-294-8531 > Universidade de Portugal or 351-21-295-4461 > 2829-516 Caparica Tel.: 351-21-294-8542 or > 21-294-8567 > PORTUGAL or 351-21-294-8300 or 21 294-8500 > Ext.112-32 > 96-577-3726 > Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia/UNL (FCT/UNL) > > (Dr. Machado is Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering at the > School of Sciences and Engineering/UNL of the University of Portugal) > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > -- Best Regards, Muhammad Yahia _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
