Re: [Foundation-l] Cabal?

2009-03-04 Thread Domas Mituzas
Hi! I realise, and beg of people not to actually believe I buy into this, but when someone makes an accusation that someone is claiming to be a WMF employee and claims that there is a conspiracy, I tend to bring it up. I beg of people to not take me for an idiot. Thats what more

Re: [Foundation-l] Cabal?

2009-03-03 Thread Thomas Dalton
2009/3/3 Domas Mituzas midom.li...@gmail.com: Hi! If there is anything like that going on, even in planning, the board should be acknowledged. I know nothing of such a thing. So I suppose it is nonsence. Ditto. Unless there is a cabal there too! :) (For the record, I'm joking, even if it

Re: [Foundation-l] Cabal?

2009-03-03 Thread David Gerard
2009/3/3 Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com: A sub-cabal within the board? Now, what colour would *their* helicopters be? We're a charity. They flap their arms really hard. - d. ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Foundation-l] Cabal?

2009-03-03 Thread Chris Down
I realise, and beg of people not to actually believe I buy into this, but when someone makes an accusation that someone is claiming to be a WMF employee and claims that there is a conspiracy, I tend to bring it up. I beg of people to not take me for an idiot. - Chris On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 6:48

Re: [Foundation-l] Cabal?

2009-03-02 Thread Michael Bimmler
On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 8:43 PM, Chris Down neuro.wikipe...@googlemail.com wrote: Yes, this sounds like complete and utter nonsense to me too Aye. But thanks for making my day. Seriously, sometimes I wonder whether people have just too much time to think up these stories (and this is not

Re: [Foundation-l] Cabal?

2009-03-02 Thread Thomas Dalton
2009/3/2 Chris Down neuro.wikipe...@googlemail.com: Ipatrol has just came on IRC claiming that he has been told that the WMF is hiring people to validate articles, and that the foundation is doing it in secret by using thousands of IPs and academics. He claims that the WMF has contracted

Re: [Foundation-l] Cabal?

2009-03-02 Thread Erik Moeller
2009/3/2 Chris Down neuro.wikipe...@googlemail.com: Ipatrol has just came on IRC claiming that he has been told that the WMF is hiring people to validate articles, and that the foundation is doing it in secret by using thousands of IPs and academics. He claims that the WMF has contracted

Re: [Foundation-l] Cabal?

2009-03-02 Thread David Gerard
2009/3/2 Chris Down neuro.wikipe...@googlemail.com: Ipatrol has just came on IRC claiming that he has been told that the WMF is hiring people to validate articles, and that the foundation is doing it in secret by using thousands of IPs and academics. He claims that the WMF has contracted

Re: [Foundation-l] Cabal?

2009-03-02 Thread Nathan
If we're being technical, the helicopters are no longer black. They're invisible. And they have Illuminati logos written invisibly. If you translate Wikimedia into Aramaic, write it backwards, translate that into Latin, remove every other letter and translate that to Cyrillic... When translated

Re: [Foundation-l] Cabal?

2009-03-02 Thread Thomas Dalton
2009/3/2 David Gerard dger...@gmail.com: 2009/3/2 Chris Down neuro.wikipe...@googlemail.com: Ipatrol has just came on IRC claiming that he has been told that the WMF is hiring people to validate articles, and that the foundation is doing it in secret by using thousands of IPs and academics.

Re: [Foundation-l] Cabal?

2009-03-02 Thread Chris Down
I thought Godwin might like to hear about it. I'll tell the user to forward any information they have to him. I mean, I didn't know JC Denton got his kicks on Wikipedia now. On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 7:50 PM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote: 2009/3/2 Chris Down

Re: [Foundation-l] Cabal?

2009-03-02 Thread Thomas Dalton
2009/3/2 Nathan nawr...@gmail.com: If we're being technical, the helicopters are no longer black. They're invisible. They're invisible and black. They tried invisible and pink but the targets just laughed. ___ foundation-l mailing list

Re: [Foundation-l] Cabal?

2009-03-02 Thread David Gerard
2009/3/2 Nathan nawr...@gmail.com: If we're being technical, the helicopters are no longer black. They're invisible. And they have Illuminati logos written invisibly. If you translate Wikimedia into Aramaic, write it backwards, translate that into Latin, remove every other letter and

Re: [Foundation-l] Cabal?

2009-03-02 Thread Chris Down
Come on, lets be serious here. This is a serious accusation and should be treated as such. They use perpetual motion machines. On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 7:55 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.comwrote: 2009/3/2 Nathan nawr...@gmail.com: If we're being technical, the helicopters are no longer

Re: [Foundation-l] Cabal?

2009-03-02 Thread George Herbert
On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 11:54 AM, Chris Down neuro.wikipe...@googlemail.comwrote: I thought Godwin might like to hear about it. I'll tell the user to forward any information they have to him. What a strange, weird world it's come to that Mike Godwin is now The Man... -- -george william

Re: [Foundation-l] Cabal?

2009-03-02 Thread Mike Godwin
George Herbert writes: What a strange, weird world it's come to that Mike Godwin is now The Man... You may imagine how weird it is for me! --Mike ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe:

Re: [Foundation-l] Cabal?

2009-03-02 Thread Wily D
On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 2:52 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/3/2 Chris Down neuro.wikipe...@googlemail.com: Ipatrol has just came on IRC claiming that he has been told that the WMF is hiring people to validate articles, and that the foundation is doing it in secret by using

Re: [Foundation-l] Cabal?

2009-03-02 Thread David Gerard
2009/3/2 Wily D wilydoppelgan...@gmail.com: I am happy to take over control of articles for $1000/month.  I can suggest a list of ~500 or so.  Who should I send the list to?  Should I also forward them my P.O. Box? Send your money to me: David Gerard c/o Ayn Landers, Wikiality, Florida. Make

Re: [Foundation-l] Cabal?

2009-03-02 Thread Chad
On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 2:43 PM, Chris Down neuro.wikipe...@googlemail.comwrote: Can anyone shed some light on whether this is even feasible? No, it's not. Considering how much of the internal mailing lists get leaked, I have a feeling we would've known about this a long time ago, were it true.