On 22/11/2007, Erik Moeller <erik(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: Does posts being submitted in Meta suggest that they may be (or should be) "mercilessly edited"? Because it is pretty strange to allow merciless editing of opinion. Typos, no worries, but beyond that seems a bit weird. cheers, Brianna -- They've just been waiting in a mountain for the right moment: http://modernthings.org/

Erik, I've given Howard Tayler a heads-up that you're potentially mentioning his objections in a fundraising blog. Thought it was only fair to warn him that he might get the Wiki zealots querying his stance. It might be better to introduce that story with a link to the Wikinews article. I'd like to think that the fact that we did the story shows WMF is more open than some of the Webcomics people are accusing us of being. In fact, there is the angle that we give our critics a forum to speak in - how many other organisations do that? Brian McNeil -----Original Message----- From: foundation-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:foundation-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Erik Moeller Sent: 22 November 2007 10:21 To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List Subject: [Foundation-l] Please contribute to the fundraising blog All - we've set up a blog to accompany our annual fundraiser. The headlines from the blog will be featured in the sitenotice: http://whygive.wikimedia.org/ I'd like to invite you to submit posts to the blog. These posts can be provocative, and should give compelling reasons to support the Wikimedia Foundation. You can draft posts here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2007/Why_Give_blog Posts will be selected by a number of people: Cary Bass (our Volunteer Coordinator), Sandy Ordonez (our Communications Manager), Sue Gardner (Special Advisor to the Board), and myself. We'll probably try to have a new post every 2-3 days at least. Once again, the point of these posts is first and foremost to invite the general public to donate. :-) Please submit stories in this general spirit. If you are willing to act as a moderator for comments to vet out spam & trolling, please contact Cary Bass at <cbass AT wikimedia DOT org>. For now, this is an experiment and as such, only in English. We will set up blogs in other languages if this one has a measurable impact on our fundraising. Thanks for any and all help! Erik Möller Member of the Board _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l