[Foundation-l] foundation-l Digest, Vol 74, Issue 28

[Adam Cuerden]

Frankly, the news story I want right now is "Jimbo Wales stripped of
all priviledges on Wikipedia projects."

On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 2:29 PM, Adam Cuerden <cuerden at gmail.com> wrote:
> Way to go. You pulled a media stunt and alienated your volunteers who
> actually do the work, because you care more about an extremely
> conservative television station in America than the worldwide audience
> Wikipedia serves and which is the primary source of donations to the
> project.
>
>
>
> On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 2:28 PM, Adam Cuerden <cuerden at gmail.com> wrote:
>> The correct storyline is that Mr. Wales caved to the slightest bit of
>> media pressure and engaged in full-out censorship of artworks and
>> diagrams, showing that anyone who wants to get something removed from
>> Wikipedia just has to threaten Mr. Wales.
>>
>> This was a disgraceful action, made all the more disgraceful by you
>> not being honest as to the reason for your actions up until now. You
>> kept the media pressure secret from the community, and claimed it was
>> a legal issue.
>>
>> Disgraceful!
>>
>>> Date: Sat, 8 May 2010 17:19:58 +0400
>>> From: Victor Vasiliev <vasilvv at gmail.com>
>>> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Where things stand now
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>>> On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 5:08 PM, Jimmy Wales <jwales at wikia-inc.com> wrote:
>>>> We were about to be smeared in all media as hosting hardcore pornography
>>>> and doing nothing about it.
>>>
>>> Do you understand that not all images you deleted were hardcore pornography?
>>> What was the reason of wheel warring on them?
>>>
>>> --vvv
>>>
>>>
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