Please read mails in this thread. Counter acting first mail, some
people forwarding the idea that one's contribution is relevant if only
they are contributing through a free software. Which is totally wrong.
Selecting a convenient software is user's option. And even sometimes
they have no options
On 6 January 2012 20:49, praveenp me.prav...@gmail.com wrote:
Please read mails in this thread. Counter acting first mail, some
people forwarding the idea that one's contribution is relevant if only
they are contributing through a free software. Which is totally wrong.
Agreed. So long as the
FOSS and wikimedia project have some similarities but they are
different projects. Wikimedians are not a subgroup of FOSS followers,
infact most of them living outside ideal FOSS world (I use free
softwares, but i don't like FOSS extremism, many others using non-free
softwares). I don't think
On 5 January 2012 19:02, Praveen Prakash me.prav...@gmail.com wrote:
softwares, but i don't like FOSS extremism, many others using non-free
softwares).
Agreed. Extremism, FOSS, Wikipedian or otherwise, isn't a good thing.
Choice, on the other hand, is.
Thank you.
Best,
Gautam
Well elucidated, Praveen.
warm regards,
Pradeep
Handheld
On 05/01/2012, Gautam John gau...@prathambooks.org wrote:
On 5 January 2012 19:02, Praveen Prakash me.prav...@gmail.com wrote:
softwares, but i don't like FOSS extremism, many others using non-free
softwares).
Agreed. Extremism,
Praveen,
I'm assuming good faith in thinking that you do not mean to accuse FOSS
advocates of imposing their POV on Wikimedians in general.
Warm regards,
Ashwin Baindur
--
On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 8:20 PM, Pradeep Mohandas
Excuse me for commenting here, I am not a techie, hence I assume, it might
not be the best place for me to comment, but after so many discussion over
FOSS or not, (yes, I googled what is FOSS) and I just want to know, is this
discussion really necessary?
Is it really necessary to get into long
On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 9:07 PM, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.comwrote:
Praveen,
I'm assuming good faith in thinking that you do not mean to accuse FOSS
advocates of imposing their POV on Wikimedians in general.
Whatever! FOSS or Something else!
One cannot demoralize a wikimedian by
On a lighter vein, this will give a nice script for a conspiracy theory -
*
One cannot demoralize a wikimedian by peeping into the license of software
which he/she uses to contribute wikimedia projects. *
Rest assured, Praveen, that other than hoping that we will get enlightened
by expressing
On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 11:28 AM, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.comwrote:
On a lighter vein, this will give a nice script for a conspiracy theory -
*
One cannot demoralize a wikimedian by peeping into the license of software
which he/she uses to contribute wikimedia projects. *
Rest
Obviously, you don't understand, WHO is forcing you? There is nothing to
rebel against.
This is my last post on this issue but not on brinjal.
Warm regards,
Ashwin Baindur
--
On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 11:33 AM, Praveen Prakash
On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 1:57 PM, Gautam John gau...@prathambooks.org wrote:
On 4 January 2012 13:38, Srikanth Ramakrishnan rsrikant...@gmail.com
wrote:
list and off the list. Wikipedia so't wholely reliant on FOSS, and
will never be. I don't mean to offend anyone but this is it. Please
Refer:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Argumentum_ad_Jimbonem
From: anivar.arav...@gmail.com
Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2012 14:06:47 +0530
To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] FOSS and Wikipedia
On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 1:57 PM, Gautam John gau
...@gmail.com
Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2012 14:06:47 +0530
To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] FOSS and Wikipedia
On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 1:57 PM, Gautam John gau...@prathambooks.orgwrote:
On 4 January 2012 13:38, Srikanth Ramakrishnan rsrikant...@gmail.com
wrote
to think.
- Jimmy Wales
Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2012 14:32:32 +0530
From: gau...@prathambooks.org
To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] FOSS and Wikipedia
Please attack the argument on merit. Not the person articulating them.
Thank you.
Best,
Gautam
(handheld)
On Jan
With due respect to Jimmy Wales, Free Knowledge may run on Free
Software but doesn't need to be contributed using Free Software. I
remember the time when some FOSS activists/extremists didn't like me
editing Wikipedia because I use Windows and Opera, neither of which
are FOSS.
--
Regards,
of the proposal should be primary, not what I happen to think.
- Jimmy Wales
Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2012 14:32:32 +0530
From: gau...@prathambooks.org
To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] FOSS and Wikipedia
Please attack the argument on merit. Not the person articulating
On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 2:15 PM, wheredevelsd...@hotmail.com wrote:
Refer:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Argumentum_ad_Jimbonem
It was not. Instead of articulating same point again, i pointed the
link. It does not matter even if it someone else's article .
Please respond to it that ,
...@gmail.com
Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2012 15:20:18 +0530
To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] FOSS and Wikipedia
On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 2:15 PM, wheredevelsd...@hotmail.com wrote:
Refer:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Argumentum_ad_Jimbonem
On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 3:31 PM, wheredevelsd...@hotmail.com wrote:
Would have been good to mention that when you posted the link.
I am not much aware about such strange rules in English wikipedia :-)
Anivar
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You do not provide only references, you write the relevant paragraph
that you are referencing. We did not think that we should write that
down.
The originator of this thread has informed me that he has left the
list. Agree with Pranav, that we have much better things to do than
discuss this. If
On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 3:38 PM, Pradeep Mohandas
pradeep.mohan...@gmail.com wrote:
You do not provide only references, you write the relevant paragraph
that you are referencing. We did not think that we should write that
down.
The whole article is relevant in the context of this thread, so why
I think people need to increase their tolerance level for what is not bad
faith or unencyclopedic on this list. It seems that just mentioning FOSS is
enough to trigger off rejoinders.
See WP:IDONTLIKEIT
This list exists to discuss matters related to Wikimedia community at
large. Occasionally it
On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 4:01 PM, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.comwrote:
So I request that we may all simmer down a bit. If this continues then I
would like to join them since I cant beat them. This I shall do by getting
upset about the abhorrent word *baingan.
*I dont like the taste of
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