[Foundation-l] Wikipedia:Office Actions

[GerardM]

Hoi,
One of the reasons why it does not happen is because we do not want to know
what is out there. One good thing of making explicit that the Wikimedia
Foundation reserves the right to take measures is that it not only allows
for less hassles when it is done, it also provides some prevention. It
informs explicitly that every project has to conform to the law and to the
minimal requirements that the WMF states.

I disagree that it is overhead. It is as worthwhile as informing about
licenses, which is also a stated WMF requirement.

Thanks,
     GerardM

On 4/24/07, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 4/24/07, Florence Devouard <Anthere9 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> [snip]
> > We need a more general policy on meta, and communities need to be
> > informed of it.
>
> Why the overhead?
>
> Why don't we just wait for the need, "OMG we're doing X on jawiki!",
> do what needs to be done "Brion, oversight cary on Jawiki now please!"
> ... and then clean up and explain after the fact.
>
> Important cases are rare enough that I don't see the need to explain
> something in a hundred languages that it will never be used in...
>
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