[WikiEN-l] Support freedum of infromashuon

geni geniice at gmail.com
Mon Nov 28 20:52:27 UTC 2005


On 11/28/05, stevertigo <vertigosteve at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Since Wikipedia is supposed to be, like, into this
> 'freedom of information thing,' (and stuff) and, like,
> that includes our friends even in the UK, who arent
> used to like, living under freedom (and stuff)...
>
> I thought it might not be out of our mandate to put
> this little image (
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Illpublish.png ) on
> the front page. Maybe even at Wikisource! (Im sure
> somebody here is an admin there. Ive only got my meta
> priveleges left now - snif!). The image is a little
> white box that says "Ill publish the Al Jazeera memo."
> It may or may not be linked to the Blairwatch.org
> site.
>
> Anyway, though it might, like, be cheezy to stand up
> for freedom of information (and stuff) though. Plus,
> that might violate Wikisource's NOR policy.
>
> Stevertigo
>  Confused: Is it still called 'Valspeak'
>  when a guy uses it?


The front page of wikipedia should not be used for campianing whatever
the cause. We don't have a big notice on the front page when china
banned as I fail to see a reason to put up a notice now.
--
geni



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