[Foundation-l] Boycott in ace at wiki

[teun spaans]

The community of each wiki can decide which illustrations are best for
a certain article, true.

Using foundation resources (banner, cpu, bandwidth) to campaign
against other foundation projects should be avoided.
Protest against decisions of WMF is one thing, lobbying against a
whole WMF project is something else.

On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 8:19 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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