Frankly, the news story I want right now is "Jimbo Wales stripped of all priviledges on Wikipedia projects."
On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 2:29 PM, Adam Cuerden cuerden@gmail.com wrote:
Way to go. You pulled a media stunt and alienated your volunteers who actually do the work, because you care more about an extremely conservative television station in America than the worldwide audience Wikipedia serves and which is the primary source of donations to the project.
On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 2:28 PM, Adam Cuerden cuerden@gmail.com wrote:
The correct storyline is that Mr. Wales caved to the slightest bit of media pressure and engaged in full-out censorship of artworks and diagrams, showing that anyone who wants to get something removed from Wikipedia just has to threaten Mr. Wales.
This was a disgraceful action, made all the more disgraceful by you not being honest as to the reason for your actions up until now. You kept the media pressure secret from the community, and claimed it was a legal issue.
Disgraceful!
Date: Sat, 8 May 2010 17:19:58 +0400 From: Victor Vasiliev vasilvv@gmail.com Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Where things stand now To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Message-ID: AANLkTin0AvroxMvCUAOotprnJxkGLFjb2DArvCeKMXLT@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 5:08 PM, Jimmy Wales jwales@wikia-inc.com wrote:
We were about to be smeared in all media as hosting hardcore pornography and doing nothing about it.
Do you understand that not all images you deleted were hardcore pornography? What was the reason of wheel warring on them?
--vvv
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