[Foundation-l] FBI Seal and Wikimedia

Dan Rosenthal swatjester at gmail.com
Tue Aug 3 23:31:11 UTC 2010


To be fair, the DNI is a relative a friend of mine and I am pretty sure he
does not personally publish much of anything on the website. But the point
is probably well taken.

-Dan

On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 7:24 PM, Andreas Kolbe <jayen466 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 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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