Hoi, There is a distinction between what an individual admin does and what all admins together do. Our projects, including the English Wikipedia have policies that are enforced. When a legal requirement is put on one or more of our projects, individual admins may indeed not be part of the ones executing this. When such a requirement is not executed by the project as a whole it may mean that the WMF in its role as ISP will have to take down a project, temporarily or permanently. An example of this was the French Wikiquote. Thanks, GerardM
On Jan 12, 2008 6:37 PM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 12/01/2008, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote:
It is our admins that enforce policies. It is the collectivity of a
project
that fails in its duty to ensure that our data can be published under
the
license we claim our data is available under. If you want to have it worded in a different way: it is up to all of us
to
ensure that our projects conform to the license that we make them
available
under.
Your statement about admin responsibilities is simply incorrect. On en:wp, it's been a long-standing principle that no admin is *obliged* to take any particular admin action.
- d.
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