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----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Scott Horning" <robert_horning(a)netzero.net>
To: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List" <foundation-l(a)wikimedia.org>
Sent: Friday, August 05, 2005 10:45 AM
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Wikiversity
Angela wrote:
Despite claims to the contrary,
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikiversity was certainly _not_ protected
at the advice of the Wikimedia Foundation.
Perhaps it was advised by one member of that foundation, but other
Board members were not consulted. I am disgusted this approach would
be taken with no consensus from the community.
Wikiversity has been running for a long time on Wikibooks and I see no
agreement whatsoever for it to be suddenly shut down like this.
Protection is a defense against vandalism, not a way of expressing one
person's point of view on whether or not a sub-project of Wikibooks
should exist. Please remove the misleading statements about protection
and explain why you ever thought the Foundation would propose such an
awful measure on a popular set of pages like Wikiversity.
Angela.
The following is a formal reply from Aya about this issue:
After having put some more thought into this, I would say that my
protecting the page was the wrong thing to do in this case, since,
although I feel that knowingly using Wikibooks as a free
content-provider to host texts which are not part of the Wikibooks
project (Wikimania05 <http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikimania05> is
another example), are tantamount to vandalism, there should be some
formal clarification. I will not do it again, and I strongly
recommend that others do not, until we have some sort of official
Wikibooks:Vandalism policy
<http://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Wikibooks:Vandalism_policy&action
=edit>,
which states when page protecting and IP/account
blocking are
justified. The correct action would have been to mark it as a VfD,
but I didn't really want it all to be deleted, since a lot of work
has gone into it already, and it seems a shame to delete it all. I
shall start work on such a policy when time permits. - Aya
<http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/User:Aya> ^T
<http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/User_talk:Aya> C
<http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Aya> 16:43, 4
August 2005 (UTC)
I'll let him speak for himself. I'm just relaying this because Aya is
not on this mailing list.
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Robert Scott Horning
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