So you're saying that the community is complicit in the agenda against itself? I guess we should just go back to the days when you had to record a half-hour recitation of the GFDL license text in every sound file hosted on Commons.
For the record, I was one of the community members on the License Update Committee (which was mainly comprised of community members, not Foundation employees). Ryan Kaldari On 9/8/10 10:19 PM, Teofilo wrote: > 2010/9/7, Teofilo<teofilow...@gmail.com>: > >> 2010/9/7, Tim Starling<tstarl...@wikimedia.org>: >> >> >>> Presumably this conspiracy would have to extend beyond the WMF to >>> PediaPress and Purodha Blissenbach, the developers of Collection and >>> mobile.wikipedia.org respectively. >>> >> The absence of a history tab in the mobile format is in my view an >> exact measurement of the temperature of the warmth of the relations >> between the WMF and its contributors. >> >> Let's not call this a conspiracy. Philosopher Pierre Bourdieu would >> call it an unconcious strategy (1). >> > The other reason why we can't call this a conspiracy is that a > conspiracy is usually kept secret, while that agenda is known by a lot > of people. They even managed to organise a vote and found a majority > approving it at > > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Licensing_update/Result > > The result is the adding of "You agree that a hyperlink or URL is > sufficient attribution under the Creative Commons license" on every > edit tab footer. > > The result is that it is thought that it is OK to distribute contents > without the history tab, the author's names remaining in a format not > readable on the device the user is using. So all these things are > features of the new vastly known agenda. They are not bugs. > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
