[WikiEN-l] Mysterious spam on Wikipedia

[Majorly]

On 23/10/2007, Casey Brown <cbrown1023.ml at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard#Switch_off_the_stupid_fundraising_scrolling_marquee
> is
> the link, for all those wondering.
>
> On 10/22/07, Robert Rohde <rarohde at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On 10/22/07, Casey Brown <cbrown1023.ml at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > On 10/22/07, Robert Rohde <rarohde at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Kindly point to where on EN that any design discussion was
> > > advertised?  Or
> > > > for that matter, point to the forum where the design of the banner
> was
> > > > publically discussed at all?
> > >
> > >
> > > Who said the discussion was advertised on en?  I didn't even say that
> > any
> > > of
> > > us could have participated in the discussion, but they could have
> > provided
> > > comments or opinions to those who /did/ organize it.
> > >
> > > EN is still more than 50% of all Wikipedia traffic (according to
> Alexa)
> > > and
> > > > I bet most regular contributors were unaware a fundraiser was coming
> > let
> > > > alone that there was a design discussion (assumming there was a
> > > > discussion).
> > >
> > >
> > > Valid point, but what does that have to do with this? (There was not a
> > > public discussion, at least not that I was aware of.)  All comments
> can
> > go
> > > to: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Fundraising_2007 but please
> try
> > > not
> > > to repeat the same concerns as other people (i.e. don't all of you
> post
> > > that
> > > the notice is ugly).  For those interested in the Wikimedia Foundation
> > and
> > > its fundraisers (not just the English Wikipedia), the fundraiser was a
> > > public date that was announced a while ago.  If you wish to be kept up
> > to
> > > date on Foundation matters, sign up for Foundation-l
> > > http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l.
> >
> >
> > Well, now there is a public discussion on EN with  more than a few
> people
> > advocating blocking this message out entirely and creating a more
> > reasonable
> > one for EN.
> >
> > -Robert Rohde
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Since it's not an administrators issue, there is a more appropriate venue
here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_talk:Common.css#Inane_Sitenotice

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Alex (Majorly)

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