For a western government the cost of the PR mess is unlikely to
outweigh any benefits. There are also various other issues that mean
that such interference is unlikely (the CIA legally can't touch
wikipedia since it is US based and I doubt any other intelligence
agency wants to annoy the US).
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 9:47 AM, Yaroslav M. Blanter pute...@mccme.ru wrote:
But then I guess there alre already checkusers on fa.wp?
Nope. Candidates were not able to get enough support; which has much
more with the situation in the community than with anything else. At
fa.wp candidates very
it doesn't make any sense that one could think of such a reason to oppose.if
you trust his abilities and good reasoning, give him the extra tools to help
as he's willing to do so.
Also, he promised he won't do checkuser in Iranian projects which is the
most critical power to misuse.
this is a
I would say the likelihood of him being the target of the Iranian govt is
the same as him being kidnapped by some terror group and tortured for his
access, which could happen in any country...
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 12:44 AM, Mido mido.archit...@gmail.com wrote:
it doesn't make any sense that
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 12:14 AM, George Herbert
george.herb...@gmail.comwrote:
It's bizarre to me that people are so vehemently defending the GFDL when it
was always clearly not the right license from a mechanics point of view.
Personally, I'm not defending the GFDL. In fact, I will make
2009/2/10 Anthony wikim...@inbox.org:
That may be the case, but even if it is it still doesn't justify the
relicensing that is currently taking place. The power to release content
under new licenses should be (and is) held by the authors individually, not
collectively. Or later was meant for
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 9:30 AM, geni geni...@gmail.com wrote:
2009/2/10 Anthony wikim...@inbox.org:
That may be the case, but even if it is it still doesn't justify the
relicensing that is currently taking place. The power to release content
under new licenses should be (and is) held by
2009/2/10 geni geni...@gmail.com:
Yeah that argument might work in about 1950. Actual real world
experience suggests that it doesn't work. The first problem you have
is that content doesn't stay in the same format if left to itself. For
example what format is this:
2009/2/10 Petr Kadlec petr.kad...@gmail.com:
Maybe the copyright laws are living in the wrong century…
In quite a few cases yes.
US and Israeli law are kinda okay and common law based systems tend to
work to an extent (partly because they are more open to what we would
call rule lawyering.
Which is more likely to happen in some countries than others.
Though, I do agree that it is a silly reason to oppose in light of his
quite reasonable concessions.
-Dan
On Feb 10, 2009, at 5:26 AM, Muhammad Alsebaey wrote:
I would say the likelihood of him being the target of the Iranian
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