On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 9:56 AM, Yaroslav M. Blanter wrote:
>
>>> reaction to what to me was actually a rather funny comment. However,
>>> Mariano's following reaction as well as Yaroslav's came across to me
>>> as unecessarily aggressive and actually shocked me in what I perceived
>>> as a lack o
>> reaction to what to me was actually a rather funny comment. However,
>> Mariano's following reaction as well as Yaroslav's came across to me
>> as unecessarily aggressive and actually shocked me in what I perceived
>> as a lack of consideration and altogether rather nasty answers.
>> Strange.
>
Hello Delphine,
Talking about 'cultural awareness and sensitivity' would you let me
propose some minor case study?
> reaction to what to me was actually a rather funny comment. However,
> Mariano's following reaction as well as Yaroslav's came across to me
> as unecessarily aggressive and actuall
Ray Saintonge wrote:
>
> Caution in avoiding offence with one's words must be coupled with a
> willingness to avoid seeing offence in the words of others. One needs to
> begin from the assumption that a word is being used in its most ordinary
> sense. Just like "gay" is not restricted by moder
--- El mar 8-jun-10, Delphine Ménard escribió:
> The problem I see here, is that Mariano's reaction, while
> probably understandable, failed, in my opinion, to tackle the real
> problem Michael was (at least the way I understood it) trying to
> point out ie. "we at Wikimedia often lack cultural
On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 9:30 AM, Lodewijk wrote:
> Dear Michael,
>
> on one side, thank you for bringing this up - I had for example no idea of
> this interpretation, and couldn't even have imagined it probably.
>
> On a more general note, how do you think this problem could be approached? I
> assu
Dear Michael,
on one side, thank you for bringing this up - I had for example no idea of
this interpretation, and couldn't even have imagined it probably.
On a more general note, how do you think this problem could be approached? I
assume that you can understand that someone uses a word in a diff
Michael Snow wrote:
> To avoid further disrupting discussion of interlanguage links and
> usability, I'll address the cultural problems separately now. I must
> admit, though, that in a discussion where we seemed to have agreed
> (rightfully so) that a 1% click rate was significant enough to war
Michael Snow wrote:
> To avoid further disrupting discussion of interlanguage links and
> usability, I'll address the cultural problems separately now. I must
> admit, though, that in a discussion where we seemed to have agreed
> (rightfully so) that a 1% click rate was significant enough to war
On 6/7/2010 5:25 PM, Aphaia wrote:
> True, but it reminded me on the time English Wikipedia sanctioned
> non-latin script usernames and blocked them indefinitely and forced
> them to rename for months. At that time many English Wikipedia sysops
> supported this idea and much more of them were indif
Native Americans used to compare European Americans to spiders.
http://www.native-languages.org/cheyenne-legends.htm
That referred to our quick adaptive nature that was not rooted in
tradition. We seem to be very clever and good at things, but not
committed to anything. I think the problem has pr
True, but it reminded me on the time English Wikipedia sanctioned
non-latin script usernames and blocked them indefinitely and forced
them to rename for months. At that time many English Wikipedia sysops
supported this idea and much more of them were indifferent. If I
recall correctly, no board mem
To avoid further disrupting discussion of interlanguage links and
usability, I'll address the cultural problems separately now. I must
admit, though, that in a discussion where we seemed to have agreed
(rightfully so) that a 1% click rate was significant enough to warrant
serious consideration,
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