Nothing to do with Wikimedia Australia, we have made no such request.
On 25 April 2018 at 19:52, Michael Peel <email(a)mikepeel.net> wrote:
Maybe it’s by an affiliate (WMAU?). Presumably it has
to be someone with
permission to use the trademark, otherwise a request to google to turn it
off should be made?
Thanks,
Mike
On 25 Apr 2018, at 05:54, Anthony Cole
<ahcoleecu(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks Joseph. How weird.
On Wed, 25 Apr 2018 at 3:01 pm, Joseph Seddon <jseddon(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
> Hey Anthony,
>
> Apologies for the delay on this.
>
> To the best of our knowledge, this ad isn't being run by the Wikimedia
> Foundation nor any vendor of the Wikimedia Foundation.
>
> Regards
> Seddon
>
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 7:12 AM, Anthony Cole <ahcoleecu(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
>
>> That Google ad (describing Wikipedia as the fact-checked encyclopedia)
is
>> still the top result when I search for
“wikipedia” in Australia.
>>
>> On Wed, 18 Apr 2018 at 8:57 pm, Isaac Olatunde <
reachout2isaac(a)gmail.com
>>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Leigh, I disagree that all projects are hostile to outsiders. When
>> someone
>>> edit in a language they do not speak and use machine to translate
>> contents
>>> for example and refused to stop after multiple warnings, a block in
> such
>>> case may not be considered an "hostile" response. That being said,
I
>>> completely agree with Rob that fact-checked encyclopedia is more
>>> appropriate considering the hostility in some language Wikipedia,
> notably
>>> the English Wikipedia. How do you describe a Wikipedia where someone
>> create
>>> their first article and got deleted and when the page creator
> approached
>>> the deleting admin on why their article got deleted and the response
> they
>>> received is "Kindly have the decency to create a decent article ",
> "count
>>> yourself lucky, I don't talk to IP address "?
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Isaac.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Apr 15, 2018 3:21 PM, "Leigh Thelmadatter"
<osamadre(a)hotmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> 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 “wikipedia” 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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