On Fri, May 7, Noein wrote:
I'm powerless. Am I? I think many of us are having these very questions now. Is it good for the WMF that we're asking them?
Eloquence is power. And it is good that you are asking.
On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 2:57 PM, Noein pronoein@gmail.com wrote:
I agree with Mike Godwin that this crisis is an constructive opportunity, not just a destructive event about fears (of FBI, of Fox News, of dictatorship), angers and disappointments.
But an opportunity for what?
- to constructively discuss the censorship problem.
- to constructively discuss the vulnerability of the WMF
- to constructively discuss the Commons policy
Let's start to pinpoint and synthesize the few big problems and link to a wikipage to BUILD discussion and answer.
You put this very well. Each of these should be discussed in turn on Meta. I've made a start at the first one:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Censorship
200 mails a day is not the way, in my opinion, besides the fact that this current discussion is not (and should not be) restricted to this mailing list.
True on both counts. Any wiki discussion should also draw in participants from other large projects (en:wp, de:wp, ja:wp, &c).
@DGG: I'll respond to your comments in another thread.
SJ