Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia Italia being sued
Mike Godwin, 16/09/2009 07:54: We've had a lot of experience of spurious reports of lawsuits originating in Italy. In the majority of those cases, Wikimedia Foundation itself never receives service of process -- in effect, the cases only really exist in Italian media. I'm not saying that's the case here, but we haven't heard anything yet from Italian process servers yet. I want to be clear: this message is offensive to Wikimedia Italia. Nemo ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia Italia being sued
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 9:11 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.comwrote: Mike Godwin, 16/09/2009 07:54: We've had a lot of experience of spurious reports of lawsuits originating in Italy. In the majority of those cases, Wikimedia Foundation itself never receives service of process -- in effect, the cases only really exist in Italian media. I'm not saying that's the case here, but we haven't heard anything yet from Italian process servers yet. I want to be clear: this message is offensive to Wikimedia Italia. Nemo To restate, there is a tendency in Italy for a media sensation to be made of purportedly legal matters when no legal actual legal processes have been initiated, and no legal documents drafted. As you can see, the statement has nothing to do with Wikimedia Italia. ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia Italia being sued
Frieda writes: As far as I remember we asked WMF help just once, few months ago. There were nothing in the news at that moment. I'm sorry the original request didn't get through to me, for whatever reason. (I suspect a spam filter blocked the earlier message because it contained two long URLs.) I first heard about it when you reposted it on a mailing list, and I responded immediately to that message when saw it. The doc is already in your mailbox. CouLd you please assure me that you received it? thanks. Yes, I've received it. Unfortunately, the text isn't scannable by OCR -- if some enterprising Italian Wikimedia feels like retyping the document into a text format, I'd be personally grateful. In the meantime, I'll do what I can with the scan you sent me. And.. Why didn't you ask for it in our private discussion rather than using foundation-l? Well, I generally respond to public mailing lists with public responses, and, as you will recall, I was responding to other public queries about this case on this and other public forums. In general, there's nothing particularly private about legal process, and it generally serves transparency and knowledge sharing to publicize whatever we can. This is already a public matter, and there's general interest in our larger community about the details. I generally share what I can, within the bounds of legal privilege. --Mike ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
