On 4/19/07, Slim Virgin slimvirgin@gmail.com wrote:
Lots of people believe that if they're threatened with violence or a lawsuit while carrying out work on behalf of Wikipedia, they can look to the Foundation for help.
Until today it had never occurred to me that some people might believe this. It's my failing that I didn't realise this, because it *does* make sense of a lot of people's actions on Wikipedia, which have seemed somewhat irresponsible to me--not least in their apparently wilful exposure of Wikimedia to potential third party liability.
In the circumstances, I can only underline my earlier agreement that the mediawiki boilerplate should be changed to underline the fact that Wikimedia does not indemnify, condone, excuse, support, instigate or stand on the sidelines cheerleading the actions or statements of editors. That this seems obvious to me isn't enough. It needs to be stated clearly.