[Foundation-l] FBI Seal and Wikimedia

Andreas Kolbe jayen466 at yahoo.com
Tue Aug 3 23:24:25 UTC 2010


It's a bit of a Keystone Kops joke for the FBI to complain about Wikipedia being irresponsible here, when the Director of National Intelligence himself publishes the seal on his website, in almost infinitely scalable detail:

http://www.dni.gov/100-day-plan/100_FOLLOW_UP_REPORT.pdf

A.

--- On Tue, 3/8/10, Nathan <nawrich at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Nathan <nawrich at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] FBI Seal and Wikimedia
> To: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List" <foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
> Date: Tuesday, 3 August, 2010, 23:45
> >
> > The story has now been picked up by other news
> agencies from the geeky
> > http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100803/00013910465.shtml
> to the
> > mainstream http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-10851394 all of
> which
> > pointing out this delightfully snarky letter. I for
> one discovered this
> > story not online but in reading the Sydney Morning
> Herald today which calls
> > it a "politely feisty response".
> >
> > -Liam
> 
> 
> Interesting - the NY Times used the same language. Someone
> got it from
> someone, wonder which article came first (or if there was a
> 3rd in the
> mix).
> 
> Nathan
> 
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