[Foundation-l] Pieter Kuiper

[Muhammad Yahia]

Wouldn't an RFC on meta be the appropriate channel to voice both issues?

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/RFC

On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 4:45 PM, Virgilio A. P. Machado <vam at fct.unl.pt>wrote:

> Pedro,
>
> Sorry, I didn't mean to confuse you or anybody. I thought people
> knew. It's the Brazilian Portuguese Wikipedia. Unfortunately, despite
> all most pious statements to the contrary, the uncontroversial truth
> is that a small group of 16 editors decided that all titles of
> articles and titles and content of Wikipedia pages would be
> "translated" into Brazilian Portuguese starting January 1, 2009.
> Since that time there is no longer a Wikipedia that a Portuguese can
> read without being full of gramatical mistakes. Think about what good
> that is for the children, the elderly, and the low educated
> Portuguese speaking population. Hey! I got my first block
> (
> http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usu%C3%A1rio_Discuss%C3%A3o:Vapmachado#Bloqueado
> )
> for trying to write these Wikipedia pages
> (
> http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usu%C3%A1rio:Vapmachado/Artigos_e_Coment%C3%A1rios_04#P.C3.A1ginas_do_espa.C3.A7o_Wikipedia
> )
> the same way as ALL my students. Kind of hard to deny based on that
> evidence, isn't it. There's more to that block than this, but this is
> already a long answer (always my problem) to a very short question.
> At least I expect to have been thorough. Any other question, please
> don't hesitate. You can always contact me in private so that we will
> reach a consensus out of the limelight.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Virgilio A. P. Machado (Vapamchado)
>
>
> At 23:59 06-12-2010, you wrote:
> >On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 5:41 PM, Virgilio A. P. Machado <vam at fct.unl.pt>
> wrote:
> > > Adam,
> > >
> > > What a timely post. What an opportunity to test the Santa Claus
> > > hierarchical structure.
> > > (...)
> > > If you do succeed in bringing any change to Commons through this
> > > request of yours, I will follow with a similar one of my own
> > > concerning the Brazilian Wikipedia, whose de facto "president"
> > > (...)
> > > Sincerely,
> > >
> > > Virgilio A. P. Machado (Vapmachado)
> > >
> > >
> >
> >is that  br.wikipedia.org or.. is there a new wiki I don't know of?
> >(I'm sorry to be so ignorant)
> >
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Muhammad Yahia