[Foundation-l] Boycott in ace at wiki

Pavlo Shevelo pavlo.shevelo at gmail.com
Sat Jul 17 18:38:21 UTC 2010


>  There is no problem
> with what consensus on different wikis decides, be that about article
> wording

Is that really so?

... and please don't mix that with personal, by own choice made
editorial decision(s)


On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 9:19 PM, Prodego <prodego at gmail.com> wrote:
> Talking about the inclusion of different images is beside the point. Each
> project can, and does, decide what content is appropriate for it. You could
> call this selection "censorship", although it is very much an editorial
> decision that anyone writing anything must make. If a particular wiki
> decides not to show some particular image then so be it. There is no problem
> with what consensus on different wikis decides, be that about article
> wording, image inclusion, style guidelines... The only problem I see is that
> the main page of a WMF site being used to make a statement about another
> site (which happens to also be a WMF site). This I do not consider to be
> acceptable. It is outside the scope of  "the growth, development and
> distribution of free, multilingual content" that the WMF claims to be about.
> Regardless of if acewiki has a problem with another site, they should not be
> using the main page of Wikipedia to air their grievances.
>
> Prodego
>
>



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