I can not in good conscience refrain from asking the Foundation management and Board to please take an exceptional, public, very visible stand in response to these extraordinarily exceptional circumstances.
Top officials from the US and China say war between the nations is "no doubt" a "reality."
http://www.cnbc.com/2017/01/29/us-china-war-increasingly-a-reality-chinese-a...
https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/02/01/trumps-chief-strategist-steve-ba...
If those of you who find my requests uncomfortable do not know how to program your email clients to hide them from you, I will gladly help you off-list.
Have you seen Katherine's statement at: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/01/30/knowledge-knows-no-boundaries/ https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/01/30/knowledge-knows-no-boundaries/ ?
I know gmail has an option to hide email threads, but it's not a standard email application feature, and it's not a good excuse for sending these repeated emails.
Thanks, Mike
On 1 Feb 2017, at 22:56, James Salsman jsalsman@gmail.com wrote:
I can not in good conscience refrain from asking the Foundation management and Board to please take an exceptional, public, very visible stand in response to these extraordinarily exceptional circumstances.
Top officials from the US and China say war between the nations is "no doubt" a "reality."
http://www.cnbc.com/2017/01/29/us-china-war-increasingly-a-reality-chinese-a...
https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/02/01/trumps-chief-strategist-steve-ba...
If those of you who find my requests uncomfortable do not know how to program your email clients to hide them from you, I will gladly help you off-list. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
I strongly support keeping messages without a clear connection to Wikimedia's purpose off this list -- especially when multiple people have already objected to a certain topic.
I am as worried about world politics and the future as anybody on this list, but Wikimedia has a fairly clear mission and purpose, and I do not see how this topic fits here.
The best way IMO to work on these issues is to improve Wikimedia *content* relating to, e.g., U.S./China relations. But one factor which may strongly contribute to what's going on here, and which may be unknown to many on the list: the originator of this thread (and I'm deliberately avoiding names) has been banned from English Wikipedia for many years. Perhaps that's why we keep getting messages here that might be more appropriate for article talk pages.
But, in short, I concur with what's been said. We've heard enough about this topic on this list. The passion is admirable; please direct it toward a more effective venue.
-Pete [[User:Peteforsyth]]
James Salsman wrote:
I can not in good conscience refrain from asking the Foundation management and Board to please take an exceptional, public, very visible stand in response to these extraordinarily exceptional circumstances.
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If those of you who find my requests uncomfortable do not know how to program your email clients to hide them from you, I will gladly help you off-list.
Since you seem to need one, as a general rule, if neither the URL you're sharing nor the contents it leads to contain the word "wiki", it's very likely inappropriate for this mailing list. Your recent medium.com, cnbc.com, and aol.com links all fail this test.
MZMcBride
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