On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 8:03 PM, Ting Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Heilmann complained through his lawyer at first by WikiMedia > Deutschland. The chapter answered him that it is not responsible for the > content on Wikipedia and they would do nothing. I agree with the first > part of the answer, but I disagree with the second part. I think someone > should have taken a glance at the complain. If that was done at that > time, the whole thing would not have happend. And I disagree with people > who are now happen about the surge in fundraising. This is not our way. > The case was not so black and white and on the long term it can backfire > on us. The point is that the chapter is NOT responsible for the content of Wikipedia. If as a chapter we receive a suggestion/complain about something in Wikipedia, we forward the email to OTRS, because that's the address that's dedicated to these things. If there is a lawsuit, as a chapter the best response is: "We have nothing to do with the contents of Wikipedia", which means, it's up to you to find out who you should sue (the individual author or the WMF). But I don't think we should facilitate their task. > > > Our content can ruin people. If someone complains about his biography, > by OTRS or by a chapter or on village pump or in mailing-list, we should > take a look at it and not just ignore it. > > If they complain via OTRS and we do nothing, we are negligent and this can cause more trouble. If they complain on a village pump, they get into more trouble, because it's a big amplifier, but still we have to do something; same for the mailing lists. But the chapters are something else, it would be like sueing a TV channel because a company they're broadcasting ads does something wrong. Cruccone _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
