I am sure other people can fill in, but I heard there has been some movement within the parliament in reaction. They are reconsidering a portion of that law that might affect us, or so I have been told.
http://www.rainews24.rai.it/it/news.php?newsid=157111 Can someone clarify? Regards Theo On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 8:06 PM, User:Matthewrbowker < [email protected]> wrote: > Of all the ways to protest the law, I think it.wp chose the most noticeable > way. If something like a sitenotice were implemented, many people would > just scroll past it. Even if not, they would only read it a couple times, > because people access Wikipedia for the content. OTOH, just locking > Editing privileges would only impact the people who are already aware of > the proposed law. The protest would have no impact on the readership. > > Just my two cents > > Matthew Bowker > http://enwp.org/User:Matthewrbowker > Sent from my iPod > > On Oct 5, 2011, at 8:03, Domas Mituzas <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> The only thing we truly could do is restore read access. But if the > >> it.wikipedia community really wants to strike, there's very little we > >> can do to stop them. :) > > > > I sure agree with that. There're plenty of ways to inflict pain without > terminating the service entirely. > > Editor strike means not editing, it doesn't mean full service downtime. > > > > Full-page banners or whatever else may work, of course. > > > > When writers guild went on strike, we could still watch old stuff, right, > it wasn't pulled ;-) > > If doctors go on strike, people are still allowed to live, retroactive > disease correction is not done... > > > > How do we deal with an editor who starts deleting his contributions out > of spite? > > > > Domas > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
