Or boycott their translations and start a WMF transwiki. On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 10:08 AM, Teofilo <teofilow...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2011/1/28 Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijs...@gmail.com>: > > When the CIA uses MediaWiki and it does, we are > > happy because as a result we do and did get feedback on the use of our > > project. When the CIA wants to use LocalisationUpdate and its people help > > localise at translatewiki.net we could not be more happy. > > As I said, I have nothing about anybody reusing the contents. However > I am against entering into a community with anybody. I want to enter > only communities with which I share some values. > > Let's forget about the CIA. I have nothing against the CIA. > > Let's imagine a group with non-democratic values provides translators > to Translatewiki. Then that group has a legitimacy to have a say in > the way Translatewiki is managed. Then that group can impose its power > structure in the management of Translatewiki. Then for some > unexplained reason, they hire bad translators, who really do bad work. > Can I say "hello, I am from Wikipedia, and I think your translation is > wrong, please change it". No I can't. It is too late. They have > imposed their non-democratic power structure, and there is no way to > change what people superior to me in their non-democratic hierarchical > power structure are imposing. In a non-democratic power structure the > only thing you can do is shut up. > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l