[Foundation-l] Litigation costs

[Gerard Meijssen]

Hoi,
There is a distinction between what an individual admin does and what all
admins together do. Our projects, including the English Wikipedia have
policies that are enforced. When a legal requirement is put on one or more
of our projects, individual admins may indeed not be part of the ones
executing this. When such a requirement is not executed by the project as a
whole it may mean that the WMF in its role as ISP will have to take down a
project, temporarily or permanently. An example of this was the French
Wikiquote.
Thanks,
     GerardM


On Jan 12, 2008 6:37 PM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 12/01/2008, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > It is our admins that enforce policies. It is the collectivity of a
> project
> > that fails in its duty to ensure that our data can be published under
> the
> > license we claim our data is available under.
> > If you want to have it worded in a different way: it is up to all of us
> to
> > ensure that our projects conform to the license that we make them
> available
> > under.
>
>
> Your statement about admin responsibilities is simply incorrect. On
> en:wp, it's been a long-standing principle that no admin is *obliged*
> to take any particular admin action.
>
>
> - d.
>
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