[Foundation-l] Priorities

Marc Riddell michaeldavid86 at comcast.net
Tue Oct 23 12:12:05 UTC 2007


>> on 10/22/07 6:19 PM, GerardM at gerard.meijssen at gmail.com wrote:
>> 
>>> I agree with your sentiments. However, this is the Foundation list and it is
>>> largely an English language Wikipedia phenomena. I do not feel that it is an
>>> issue that I should deal with because I am not really connected to what
>>> happens on the English language Wikipedia. Even though it is "not good"TM it
>>> is not something that feels like "us" to me. It is you lot of the English
>>> language Wikipedia that have to deal with it.
>> 
On 22/10/2007, Marc Riddell <michaeldavid86 at comcast.net> wrote:

>> We in the English Wikipedia do have a lot of our act to clean up.
> 
on 10/23/07 7:44 AM, James Forrester at jdforrester at gmail.com wrote:

> Absolutely.
> 
> However, I think it is fair to say that if the toxicity of the English
> Wikipedia at this point is so great as to impact on the Foundation
> (e.g. on the Foundation's ability to raise money), then that is
> definitely a matter for the list.
> 
> If necessary, the Wikimedia community at large will have to take
> action to "fix" the English Wikipedia community - but "coup" is such
> an ugly word. :-)
> 
Whatever it takes, James ;-). All for the greater good :-).

Marc

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