[Foundation-l] Personal Image Filter results announced

Andrew Garrett agarrett at wikimedia.org
Thu Sep 15 00:05:12 UTC 2011


On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 1:56 AM, Milos Rancic <millosh at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 17:44, Stephen Bain <stephen.bain at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 1:26 AM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
>> <cimonavaro at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> "We do realize that what we did was wrong, and this is clearly not a
>>> situation where we can go on with the 'your opinions have been
>>> duly noted' haughty attitude. We apologize for even going that route
>>> ever in the first place. The community rules, we serve, that is what
>>> we are being payed for."
>>
>> "Let us now prostrate ourselves at the feet of that segment of the
>> community which opposed this idea, who we realise are the just and
>> righteous leaders of the Wikimedia movement due to having the loudest
>> voices, and beg for their absolution."
>
> "We accept the fact that our motives and motives of those who
> supported us lay in our suppressed unconscious part of mind; that it
> shows how deep are our fears to face the real world. But, as we said,
> we've learned the lesson and we'll try to face reality, no matter how
> painful it is. That's our job, as we are the leaders of Wikimedia
> movement."

Could we not?

This isn't very useful to anybody.

-- 
Andrew Garrett
Wikimedia Foundation
agarrett at wikimedia.org



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