[Foundation-l] Call for a moratorium on all new software developments

[Huib Laurens]

2010/9/9 Teofilo <teofilowiki op gmail.com>

> 2010/9/7, Teofilo <teofilowiki op gmail.com>:
> > 2010/9/7, Tim Starling <tstarling op wikimedia.org>:
> >
> >> Presumably this conspiracy would have to extend beyond the WMF to
> >> PediaPress and Purodha Blissenbach, the developers of Collection and
> >> mobile.wikipedia.org respectively.
> >
> > The absence of a history tab in the mobile format is in my view an
> > exact measurement of the temperature of the warmth of the relations
> > between the WMF and its contributors.
> >
> > Let's not call this a conspiracy. Philosopher Pierre Bourdieu  would
> > call it an unconcious strategy (1).
>
> The other reason why we can't call this a conspiracy is that a
> conspiracy is usually kept secret, while that agenda is known by a lot
> of people. They even managed to organise a vote and found a majority
> approving it at
>
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Licensing_update/Result
>
> The result is the adding of "You agree that a hyperlink or URL is
> sufficient attribution under the Creative Commons license" on every
> edit tab footer.
>
> The result is that it is thought that it is OK to distribute contents
> without the history tab, the author's names remaining in a format not
> readable on the device the user is using. So all these things are
> features of the new vastly known agenda. They are not bugs.
>
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There was nothing secret about that vote, we announced it on all wiki's and
we kept public archives for our mailinglist.

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Regards,
Huib "Abigor" Laurens



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