I think it is fairly easy to make such statements when you live abroad, and are not directly influenced by its outcomes.
As a side note, if this strike goes through (I could both understand it if it does, and if it doesn't), I would recommand to add a link to an English translation at least, for all those foreigners who might be visiting it.wikipedia as well. An alternative could be to use a really huge sitenotice, so that people are forced to scroll down a lot every time - which is very frustrating, but doesn't deprive you of the actual contents. Best, Lodewijk No dia 4 de Outubro de 2011 15:23, Thomas Morton < [email protected]> escreveu: > > > > Because of such a risk (it’s easily understandable that this rule will > make > > encyclopedia articles as pure “frames” for unchangeable text imposed by > > others), the Italian community has decided, by a vast majority (see > > > http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bar/Discussioni/Comma_29_e_Wikipedia > > ) > > to lock both read and write access to encyclopedia articles and to > publish > > the following text as full screen sitenotice: > > http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utente:Vituzzu/comunicato (an English > > translation is available here: > > http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utente:Vituzzu/comunicato/en). This > decision > > will be implemented as soon as possible, during the next 12 hours. > > > > Being polite; I'd call that a serious overreaction. Akin to throwing the > baby out with the bath water! > > I bought my tame Italian lunch and she likes me again; so deigned to have a > read of this law. As far as we can make out there doesn't seem to be a leg > to stand on.. or any real likelihood of risk to editors or content... > > In the modern world countries love to try it on and apply their internet > laws across the world. Fortunately courts tend to give that short shrift. > > > Which, at least, will mean incoming legal issues or inquiries to be > managed by WMF, withrelated expenses. > > To the extent of a polite response saying "not a chance, sorry", and an > offer to hand them off to a volunteer to help resolve any issues. Which is > what happens at the moment :) > Tom > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
