[WikiEN-l] Fwd: IDG press enquiry regarding the HD-DVD controversy

[David Gerard]

On 04/05/07, Andrew Lih <andrew.lih at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/4/07, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:

> > It would be crippling to our mission to roll over so easily.

> This is assuming the mission of Wikipedia and WMF is to stand up
> against bad laws the community does not like. However, it is not.
> FYI, the following is a good summary of the community consensus (at
> least the en: sysop irc-enabled consensus on the day of this issue),
> penned by some of the folks in this thread.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Keyspam


Yeah, including rewriting by me.

I've just done a rewrite for style to the article itself:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HD_DVD_encryption_key_controversy#Other_websites

Hopefully it's almost readable now.

(see, I do so write articles, not just admin stuff)


- d.