Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: BBC "5 Live Investigates"

2011-02-01 Thread Michael Snow
That seems generally consistent with typical practices on Amazon.com, which are oriented toward maintaining a walled garden and avoiding any kind of outbound link. It's really an extension of standard business practice for any commercial distributor or middleman who doesn't want to be cut out o

[Foundation-l] Fwd: BBC "5 Live Investigates"

2011-02-01 Thread David Gerard
Books, LLC. respond. They say they included Wikipedia URLs on their pages, but Amazon removed them. - d. -- Forwarded message -- From: Andrew Date: 1 February 2011 23:29 Subject: BBC "5 Live Investigates" To: dger...@gmail.com, slimvir...@gmail.com, geni...@gmail.com, thewub.w

Re: [Foundation-l] Making wikimediafoundation.org more open to contributions

2011-02-01 Thread KIZU Naoko
Respectfully disagreed re: change from meta to plain wikimedia.org It would be of our convenience but other projects specially non-Wikipedia ones might be weakened their presence. As an invididual Wikiquotian, I'm afraid of that. On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 3:40 AM, Pharos wrote: > On Mon, Jan 31, 20

Re: [Foundation-l] Making wikimediafoundation.org more open to contributions

2011-02-01 Thread Fred Bauder
> > Changing the url from meta.wikimedia.org to plain vanilla > wikimedia.org would be one of the last steps, actually. > > Thanks, > Richard > (User:Pharos) See http://www.wikimedia.org/ Fred ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimed

Re: [Foundation-l] Making wikimediafoundation.org more open to contributions

2011-02-01 Thread Pharos
On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 8:25 AM, Thomas Dalton wrote: > On 28 January 2011 20:33, phoebe ayers wrote: >> Such a solution would make it easier to fold separate wikis >> (such as a conference wiki) back into Meta when we were done with >> them, too. > > Why fold them into meta afterwards rather tha