[Foundation-l] Bunners at the bottom of every page

[Philippe Beaudette]

Agreed.  I think it's time to get a steward to make some changes - based on 
discussions on this list, I think they're on solid ground.

Well said, Delphine.  Endorsed.

Philippe

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From: "Delphine Ménard" <notafishz at gmail.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2008 7:46 AM
To: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List" <foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Bunners at the bottom of every page

> On Jan 6, 2008 1:45 PM, Aphaia <aphaia at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Jan 6, 2008 8:57 PM, Max Semenik <maxsem.wiki at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > http://ru.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?diff=25853
>> >
>> > Translation: "Last week there was a sharp increase in activities of 
>> > anon idiots,
>> > foreigners (without the knowledge of Russian or with a bad grasp of
>> > it), and users AlexSmotrov (signs as AlexSm) and Putnik. I hope it's
>> > just a coincidence, otherwise I'll need to track down possible
>> > connections between these users and some others. --Ramir 10:47, 5
>> > January 2008 (UTC)"
>> >
>> > This is WAY off the limits of civil behaviour we are accustomed to
>> > expect from any constructive user, especially from a sysop.
>>
>> As well as the point mentioned by MaxSem, I would like also to argue
>> the matter if a WMF-owned wiki should carry wmf logo and a link to its
>> official website where people can find its contact point by email, fax
>> and phone is not a language issue as the user Ramir suggested, and
>> raising the issue around language barrier in that manner is highly to
>> be discouraged on our project.
>
>
> I am sorry to be so blunt, but this is the 35th message on this
> thread, and apart from Elisabeth unfortunately aborted attempts, there
> has been nothing done on the matter.
>
> Regardless of civility, wikilove and all other things, and keeping in
> mind that I am ok with the fact that people may want to "customize"
> their projects' css, I don't see why we're even discussing this
> particular "customization".
>
> Wikibooks is a Wikimedia project, powered by Mediawiki and there's
> nothing else to it. These mentions have to come back, there's no
> discussion to be had.
>
> Had I the powers to make myself an admin on that wiki, I would simply
> restore this and be done with it, thing is, I can't. If Ramir wants a
> policy, well, let's make this a precedent and hence a policy. The fact
> that Wikimedia hosted projects are Wikimedia hosted projects and
> powered by Mediawiki is a fact, not something up for vote or
> consensus, one man's or many people's appreciation. Please, make me an
> admin on that wiki and I'll do the stuff.
>
> Geez.
>
> Best,
>
> Delphine
> -- 
> ~notafish
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