Seriously stop hijacking this thread. Let MZMcBride have a chance at some
discussion on his question.
This below is just not cool. Have some respect for MZMcBride. He didn't write
out his thoughts or concerns with idea that the first reply would turn it all
into snip fodder. That seems beyond d
On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 9:45 AM, David Gerard wrote:
> On 2 August 2012 05:13, MZMcBride wrote:
>
> > This appears to be an unprecedented power-grab by the office of the
> General
> > Counsel.
>
>
> Um ... that's a bizarre perception.
Well, just look at the number of scenarios where the democr
On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 12:11 PM, MZMcBride wrote:
> What type of action was the SOPA blackout in January?
>
You mean, given the $500,000 Google donation Wikimedia received in November
2011, one month after the Italian Wikipedia's blackout, and two months
before the English Wikipedia's SOPA black
David Gerard wrote:
> On 2 August 2012 05:13, MZMcBride wrote:
>> This appears to be an unprecedented power-grab by the office of the General
>> Counsel.
>
> Um ... that's a bizarre perception.
Is it?
I read through the page at Meta-Wiki and couldn't help but notice that every
involvement requi
On 2 August 2012 05:13, MZMcBride wrote:
> This appears to be an unprecedented power-grab by the office of the General
> Counsel.
Um ... that's a bizarre perception.
- d.
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On 8/2/12 7:51 AM, Samuel Klein wrote:
And I would love to see
the foundation practice delegating some of this bureaucracy and
responsibility to non-staff groups. We have no shortage of energy, talent,
and experience there in the community.
In addition, there's a fairly well-organized set of ad
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Geoff Brigham wrote:
> Since the SOPA blackout, we have had a number of requests come in for
> public affiliations regarding policy and political issues. The Wikimedia
&
Geoff Brigham wrote:
> Since the SOPA blackout, we have had a number of requests come in for
> public affiliations regarding policy and political issues. The Wikimedia
> Foundation (WMF) is not a political organization, and many may argue
> understandably that our role is to support great projects
Forwarding, as this doesn't yet seem to have made it through from the
Announce list (possibly because of the HTML content; but trying anyway. The
message can also be read at
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaannounce-l/2012-August/000450.html
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