Re: [WikiEN-l] German Wikipedia and Sei grausam

2009-09-23 Thread Steve Bennett
On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 10:55 PM, Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com wrote: The Google translation is hilarious, but the gist comes through: Hmm, Assume good intentions seems so much clearer than assume good faith. Steve ___ WikiEN-l mailing list

Re: [WikiEN-l] German Wikipedia and Sei grausam

2009-09-23 Thread Erik Moeller
With all due respect to my friends in de.wp and speaking purely as a community member, there are some valid points in the essay, but a page title like Be cruel is IMO inherently unhelpful to our objective to be a friendly and welcoming community. Erik

Re: [WikiEN-l] German Wikipedia and Sei grausam

2009-09-23 Thread stevertigo
Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote: With all due respect to my friends in de.wp and speaking purely as a community member, there are some valid points in the essay, but a page title like Be cruel is IMO inherently unhelpful to our objective to be a friendly and welcoming community. So,

[WikiEN-l] German Wikipedia and Sei grausam

2009-09-20 Thread Carcharoth
Was reading around and following a link to the German Wikipedia, where they have this policy: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sei_grausam This translates roughly as Wikipedia: Be cruel. The Google translation is hilarious, but the gist comes through:

Re: [WikiEN-l] German Wikipedia and Sei grausam

2009-09-20 Thread Charles Matthews
Carcharoth wrote: Is there anything like this page on the English Wikipedia? Apparently WP:SO TOUGH has yet to be created. Charles ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit:

Re: [WikiEN-l] German Wikipedia and Sei grausam

2009-09-20 Thread Durova
That isn't a policy. This is the list of the German Wikipedia policies. http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Richtlinien Their structure is different; this is roughly on the level of Wikipedia:Assume no clue. -Durova On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 7:17 AM, Charles Matthews