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

[Ryan Kaldari]

Sorry, I meant every audio recording of an article, not every sound file :)

Ryan Kaldari

On 9/9/10 10:23 AM, Ryan Kaldari wrote:
> So you're saying that the community is complicit in the agenda against
> itself? I guess we should just go back to the days when you had to
> record a half-hour recitation of the GFDL license text in every sound
> file hosted on Commons.
>
> For the record, I was one of the community members on the License Update
> Committee (which was mainly comprised of community members, not
> Foundation employees).
>
> Ryan Kaldari
>
> On 9/8/10 10:19 PM, Teofilo wrote:
>    
>> 2010/9/7, Teofilo<teofilowiki at gmail.com>:
>>
>>      
>>> 2010/9/7, Tim Starling<tstarling at 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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