Well, but we still made a value decision in choosing to highlight a positive fact from his bio that portrays him in a certain light, rather than something about his downsides. I think the man deserves respect, and of course there is a ton of things to learn from Apple's success, but in several ways the values he stands for are indeed diametrically opposed to Wikipedia's.
On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 12:30 PM, Jeff Elder jelder@wikimedia.org wrote:
If we're posting links to our content, I think we're on solid ground. People can have all sorts of feelings about Apple and Jobs and still want to know the facts about him.
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On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 12:26 PM, Ivan Martínez galaver@gmail.com wrote:
I have the same feeling than Victor. Jobs represented a company with some opposed values to our movement perhaps a lot of wikimedians are AppleFans :P
2015-10-05 13:59 GMT-05:00 Victor Grigas vgrigas@wikimedia.org:
I'll just say this - Apple isn't exactly an open-source company. Is that an issue?
On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 2:56 PM, Jeff Elder jelder@wikimedia.org wrote:
You're right! Will dehyphenate and post
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On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 11:55 AM, Joe Sutherland <
jsutherland@wikimedia.org>
wrote:
I like it. But isn't it "HP" (no dash)?
J
On Monday, 5 October 2015, Jeff Elder jelder@wikimedia.org wrote:
Jump in there with this?
When he was 13, Steve Jobs cold-called Bill Hewlett of H-P, who gave
him
a summer job. http://buff.ly/1Q1Qmp2 #rememberingstevejobs
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On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 11:24 AM, Michael Guss mguss@wikimedia.org wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > Social trend right now is remembering Steve Jobs; Wikipedia does as > well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs > > Thoughts? > > -- > Michael Guss > Research Analyst > Wikimediafoundation.org > mguss@wikimedia.org > > _______________________________________________ > Social-media mailing list > Social-media@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/social-media >
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