I'm not sure why Howard Taylor is a problem here, his comic Schlock
Mercenary is one of the larger and more famous ones on the internet.
He is however, something of a whack job and would likely be prone to
believing things like "Wikipedia discriminates against webcomics."
-Dan Rosenthal
On Oct 22, 2007, at 1:50 PM, Birgitte SB wrote:
--- Florence Devouard <Anthere9(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
Brian McNeil wrote:
Florence Devouard wrote:
> ... I felt I could not say publicly that
Wikipedia was one
> of the tools to bring peace on Earth because
I
also know working on our
> projects (not only Wikipedia) is somehow
becoming
increasingly
> difficult. We are more numerous, more
protective
to our
> featured-content, less welcoming to our
newbies
(for technical or social
> reasons).
> How many experts have been driven away by the
agressivity of some of our
> members ? How many new editors just were
discouraged by the difficulty
> of editing a table or a template ? How many
newbies were blocked because
> they just did not understood quickly enough
how
to use a talk page ?
> Also, during the year, several cases of
online or
offline harassment of
> contributors were reported. Harassement which
came as a result of their
contributions to our projects.
In trying to do my bit for fundraising I emailed
Howard Tayler, a webcomic
artist asking could he help with my nonexistent
drawing skills and make up
an ad for his site that I'd pay for during
part of
the WMF fundraiser.
As an indication that there is indisputably a
problem that needs addressed,
here is the response I got.
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I use
Wikipedia from time to time, and appreciate
its value to the growing
internet community, and to the world at large.
I will not, however, help them raise money. I am
strongly opposed to the
"anti-webcomics" agenda that has been
espoused by
a number of prominent
editors. If the foundation really cared about
what
these editors write, and
how they treat other people, it would take steps
to curb their behavior.
This, unfortunately, is a very non-negotiable
position on my part, and I'd
prefer to not argue about it. We'd just be
wasting
each others' time.
I appreciate your attempt to raise money for a
cause you believe in, and am
flattered that you'd think of me in
connection to
it.
--Howard
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This issue isn't just costing us contributors;
we're losing goodwill and
fundraising opportunities.
Brian.
Right....
What is that anti-webcomics" agenda he is talking
about ?
Ant
This is an en.WP issue (again). Articles on web-comics
have been deleted as not notable on en.WP. [1] It
might be useful to share with Howard what the actual
mission of Wiki*media* is and how it works, just for
the sake of clarity. But I can't imagine anyone would
really support WMF writing and enforcing new deletion
guidelines for en.WP or anything else that would truly
appease him.
Birgitte SB
[
1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Webcomics/Archive_5#Non-
noteworthy_webcomics
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