Kudos to the community and WMF teams for creating this outstanding document!
I love the brevity, clarity -- and yes, elegance -- of your human-readable summary.
I'm amazed that you managed to fit our most important goals, rights and responsibilities into just 12 bullet points.
It's an inspiring achievement, which I will seek to emulate in my own work.
Well done, everybody!
Fabrice
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On Apr 28, 2012, at 5:00 AM, wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org wrote:
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2012 23:43:04 -0700 From: Philippe Beaudette philippe@wikimedia.org To: Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Updated Terms of Use Message-ID: CAPb+kY_omSnLpiT3jwHJZsLZZccVmTaHb+g84JOp2WY97_d1rA@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Birgitte, Andrew, thank you for your kind words. True credit on this one goes to Maggie, Geoff, and the community members who worked countless hours with them and discussed in great detail almost every word of the thing. I think everyone involved would tell you that it was a thoughtful, deliberative, and truly exhausting process.... but it was amazing in its collegiality in the final product.
I'm proud to be part of the team that worked on this, but my role was small... my hat is off to Maggie, Geoff, and all the others who participated (below, I have listed everyone with more than 15 edits to the talk page where it was developed.)
Community Members with more than 15 edits to the Talk page:
Geoffbrigham Mdennis (WMF) WhatamIdoing Filceolaire FT2 Peteforsyth Michaeldsuarez Seth Finkelstein Angel54 5 Seb az86556 WereSpielChequers Steven (WMF) Rosenkohl Esetzer Wnt Teofilo Philippe (WMF) John Vandenberg Danhash Rich Farmbrough Dcoetzee 62.140.210.130 ?????? ?????
Philippe Beaudette Director, Community Advocacy Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
415-839-6885, x 6643
philippe@wikimedia.org
On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 4:48 PM, Birgitte_sb@yahoo.com wrote:
On Apr 27, 2012, at 12:49 AM, Andrew Garrett agarrett@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 2:26 AM, Philippe Beaudette philippe@wikimedia.orgwrote:
Hi everyone,
As you may be aware, Wikimedia has updated its Terms of Use. This
updated
version will become effective on May 25, 2012, and can be reviewed here<http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Terms_of_Use_%282012%29/en
.[1]
A short overview of some of the changes is set out herehttp://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/New_Terms_of_use. [2]
Best wishes, Philippe
Terms of use are boring, and most of us are pretty jaded by how impenetrable, legalistic and, well, awful, most terms of use are on the internet.
I want to congratulate you and your department on NOT doing this. The new terms of use are written in clear English, well set out, and cover what seem to be the appropriate bases without being overly verbose and
cautious.
Well done, Philippe, Geoff, and everyone else.
I am also impressed. It actually ends up being the best one piece introduction to what Wikimedia *is* that I have ever read. A lot of thought and consideration were soundly invested in that document. Clarity on that level is HARD, but well worth the effort. I also am thinking that the staff have just set a rather high bar for the board. Imagine if all board resolutions were written with as just as much focus on clarity and as on circumspection. These terms of use show it is possible.
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Tell me what I am missing here. please. Do these new rules not mean Chinese internet users are violating our terms of service, if they evade Chinese state censorhip to view our content?
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