On Mon, 6 Dec 2021 at 14:30, Andreas Kolbe wrote:
> According to its certificate of incorporation, available in the filing
> history, the "Jimmy Wales Foundation" is a "private company limited by
> guarantee". This is quite different from the sort of charitable foundation
> the Wikimedia Founda
Hi all,
As regards the use of the proceeds from this auction, Jimmy Wales posted
the following rather non-committal statement on his English Wikipedia talk
page:[1]
"I'm planning to donate a significant portion and use a significant portion
for wt.social. I haven't made any final decisions. I off
Hoi,
When Jimmy wants to sell his pc, he can. When he sells something intangible
like the "first edit of Wikipedia" even that has nothing to do with us.
Thanks,
GerardM
On Mon, 6 Dec 2021 at 13:49, Lane Chance wrote:
> I don't understand how a Wikimedia trustee using Wikimedia websites,
>
I don't understand how a Wikimedia trustee using Wikimedia websites,
Wikimedia branding, and this Wikimedia supported email list to promote a
funding event for their own commercial project, i.e. "WT:Social", fits with
the bylaws which include:
"The property of this Foundation is irrevocably dedicat
I too expected a stronger reaction from the rigid idealogues and the
attention-seekers (although I see that did indeed occur on-wiki, courtesy
of the same old grandstanding admins), and thought the minimal response was
perhaps a sign of progress!
Might just be disinterest and the ever-shrinking pr
Hi Mike,
No, not on Meta – on English Wikipedia. You had best go through the page
history:
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Jimbo_Wales&action=history
The final section removal (there was a bit of back and forth) was here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk
I missed this. Link to the on-wiki discussions? (Presumably on meta, since this
isn’t just enwiki-specific?)
Thanks,
Mike
> On 5 Dec 2021, at 22:51, Andreas Kolbe wrote:
>
>
> Well, all the sturm und drang on this one is on Facebook, in the Wikipedia
> Weekly group:
>
> https://www.faceboo
Well, all the sturm und drang on this one is on Facebook, in the Wikipedia
Weekly group:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/wikipediaweekly/posts/4534171036630692/
Other than that, there was a bit of drama on Jimmy Wales' talk page, where
an admin removed the talk page section Jimmy had created abou
Hi all,
tl;dr: huh, this is weird.
I'm amazed at the muted reception to this. Even prodding David Gerard on
Facebook (who even wrote a book about the badness of Blockchain) didn't
go very far.
The concept of NFT seems to go against the very principles of Wikipedia.
On one hand, we share our
Hi Jimmy:
Go for it! Any time in life when, as individuals, we have something to
give that can better the life of others, we should make the most of the
opportunity. No matter where you decide to donate the proceeds from the
auction, it will be of benefit to the recipient(s).
It surely seems you
Thanks for the post; I appreciate finding out from an internal list before
social media / the news.
Adam, agreed this list isn't a good place for general discussion about it,
bit a heads-up seems fine (and a longer thread on wiki appropriate)
🌍🌏🌎🌑
>> *I’ll be around for the next 8 hours or so t
This is a good opportunity for us to take a look at the new conflict of
interest policies [1], in light of preventing this sort of email in the
future. In my opinion, the WMF Board had the right idea—this is a personal
project, and broadcasting to a movement list gives a strong sense of
capitalizi
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