[Wikipedia-l] Multilingual error messages - need proof-reading

[Kat Walsh]

On 9/12/07, Andre Engels <andreengels at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2007/9/11, Kat Walsh <kat at mindspillage.org>:
>
> > What's a "meta" policy? The restriction on open proxies is not a
> > Foundation policy that must be enforced on all projects: there's never
> > been a board resolution or other official action about it. It's just
> > one many communities have chosen to adopt (and may, also, choose not
> > to adopt), and so it is written on meta for reference by many
> > projects.
>
> Well, I have heard differently. Here some comments made during
> discussions about the blocking of open proxies on Dutch Wikipedia:
>
> "I hate to bitch but: het blokkeren van open proxies is foundation
> policy. Mi dus niet iets waar "wij" (lees de lokale community) iets
> over te zeggen hebben."
>
> transl.: "I had to bitch but: blocking open proxies is foundation
> policy. In my opinion therefore not something where "we" (read: the
> local community) have a say in."
>
> "het blokkeren van OP's is formeel beleid op alle Wikimediaprojecten"
>
> transl.: "Blocking open proxies is formal policy on all Wikimedia projects"

They're wrong. :-)

It may be a popular policy, but it's up to individual projects. (And I
think that where it is implemented, it's very much a sad compromise to
keep back the flow of crap and abuse that comes along with the
legitimate uses, rather than something all projects should do on
principle.)

-Kat

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