Hey Anthony.
These emails came in on a weekend and today is a WMF holiday so I suspect
it'll be another 24 hours or so before a response will get to you :)
Regards
Seddon
On Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 1:15 AM, Philippe Beaudette <philippe(a)beaudette.me>
wrote:
I suspect that the ad in question is a freebie,
donated through Google's
giveaway to nonprofits. If so there is a point person at wmf (maybe in the
advancement team?) Who would know for sure.
Philippe
On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 5:10 PM Anthony Cole <ahcoleecu(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I just googled "wikipedia" again and
that ad is still coming up. (Iβm in
Australia.) When you click the link in the ad it takes you (via 3 or 4
redirects) to
wikipedia.org with the word "paid" in the search field.
[1]
When you click the Google maps link below the ad
text it, strangely,
takes
you to the location of a suburban Kmart store.
I'm finding it harder to
believe this is sanctioned by WMF. Anyway, Iβd appreciate it if someone
from the WMF could chime in on this.
1.
https://instagram.com/p/BhpnGuehzhw/
On Mon, 16 Apr 2018 at 9:48 pm, Robert Fernandez <wikigamaliel(a)gmail.com
wrote:
> > "π₯ π₯ π₯ π₯The encyclopedia of evil people, by evil people, for evil
> people π₯ π₯ π₯ π₯" + a winking Baphomet as logo
>
> I think we should change this to our slogan just for April 1.
>
> On Sun, Apr 15, 2018 at 11:31 AM, Vi to <vituzzu.wiki(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
"π₯ π₯ π₯ π₯The encyclopedia of evil people, by evil
people, for evil
people π₯ π₯ π₯ π₯" + a winking Baphomet as logo
I find close to pointless derailing any discussion into a
incircumstantial
> series of tirades.
>
> Vito
>
> 2018-04-15 16:21 GMT+02:00 Leigh Thelmadatter <osamadre(a)hotmail.com
:
> >
> >> Not just English Wikipedia. All of the projects are hostile to
> "outsiders"
> >> Those not in English might even be worse for several reasons
> >>
> >> Enviado desde mi LG de Telcel
> >>
> >> ------ Original message------
> >> From: Robert Fernandez
> >> Date: Sun, Apr 15, 2018 9:17 AM
> >> To: Wikimedia Mailing List;
> >> Cc:
> >> Subject:Re: [Wikimedia-l] The fact-checked encyclopedia
> >>
> >> Considering the barriers to entry, growing thicket of policies,
> >> organized group harassment, and open hostility on the English
> >> Wikipedia, I'm not sure we can even call it "the encyclopedia
anyone
> >> can edit" anymore. So I'd say fact-checked is a more accurate
and
> >> relevant claim these days.
> >>
> >> On Sun, Apr 15, 2018 at 8:53 AM, Anthony Cole <ahcoleecu(a)gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> > I just googled βwikipediaβ and the first result was a Google ad
> linking
> >> to
> >> > wikipedia.org.[1] It calls Wikipedia the fact-checked
encyclopedia.
We
> used
> > to call it the encyclopedia anyone can edit. The latter seems more
honest
>> > than this new formulation which to me implies a degree of
reliability
and
> > oversight I'm not sure we can
ethically assert. I missed the
discussion
>> > about this new self-description. Did it happen on meta? Is anyone
else
>> > uncomfortabe with this?
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