Re: [Foundation-l] THIS is why we support WMF! Sincere thanks for a blackout.

2012-01-17 Thread Marc Riddell
on 1/17/12 11:31 AM, Alec Meta at alecm...@gmail.com wrote: > Wikimedia is a movement. We're not a game, we're not a website, we're not > even just an encyclopedia-- we're a nonviolent revolution in information > sharing. > For-profit media is harder to trust-- we've seen that "For-profit" medi

Re: [Foundation-l] THIS is why we support WMF! Sincere thanks for a blackout.

2012-01-17 Thread Emmanuel Engelhart
On 17/01/2012 17:31, Alec Meta wrote: > Good work, WMF. Thank you for what you've done, thank you for what you're > doing. This is not a decision by the WMF, but by the Wikipedia in English (and a few other communities) community. Sue Gardner, Director of the WMF, supports this decision and adve

[Foundation-l] THIS is why we support WMF! Sincere thanks for a blackout.

2012-01-17 Thread Alec Meta
Wikimedia is a movement. We're not a game, we're not a website, we're not even just an encyclopedia-- we're a nonviolent revolution in information sharing. For-profit media is harder to trust-- we've seen that "For-profit" media often means "For sale". In a time where it's hard to trust a congre