[Foundation-l] foundation-l Digest, Vol 74, Issue 28

[Adam Cuerden]

Way to go. You pulled a media stunt and alienated your volunteers who
actually do the work, because you care more about an extremely
conservative television station in America than the worldwide audience
Wikipedia serves and which is the primary source of donations to the
project.



On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 2:28 PM, Adam Cuerden <cuerden at gmail.com> wrote:
> The correct storyline is that Mr. Wales caved to the slightest bit of
> media pressure and engaged in full-out censorship of artworks and
> diagrams, showing that anyone who wants to get something removed from
> Wikipedia just has to threaten Mr. Wales.
>
> This was a disgraceful action, made all the more disgraceful by you
> not being honest as to the reason for your actions up until now. You
> kept the media pressure secret from the community, and claimed it was
> a legal issue.
>
> Disgraceful!
>
>> Date: Sat, 8 May 2010 17:19:58 +0400
>> From: Victor Vasiliev <vasilvv at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Where things stand now
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>> On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 5:08 PM, Jimmy Wales <jwales at wikia-inc.com> wrote:
>>> We were about to be smeared in all media as hosting hardcore pornography
>>> and doing nothing about it.
>>
>> Do you understand that not all images you deleted were hardcore pornography?
>> What was the reason of wheel warring on them?
>>
>> --vvv
>>
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