Re: [Foundation-l] foundation-l Digest, Vol 74, Issue 28

2010-05-08 Thread Dan Rosenthal
Adam, You've made your point. I and other list readers don't need my email box stuffed full with dozens of new posts from the same person saying substantively the same thing, with different subjects. If anyone had confusion about where you stand on this issue, it was clarified long ago. Contin

Re: [Foundation-l] foundation-l Digest, Vol 74, Issue 28

2010-05-08 Thread Adam Cuerden
Sorry, left this out: Frankly, the news story I want right now is "Jimbo Wales stripped of all priviledges on Wikipedia projects." http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Remove_Founder_flag#For_removal <- As does the majority of the users. On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 2:33 PM, Adam Cuer

Re: [Foundation-l] foundation-l Digest, Vol 74, Issue 28

2010-05-08 Thread Adam Cuerden
Frankly, the news story I want right now is "Jimbo Wales stripped of all priviledges on Wikipedia projects." On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 2:29 PM, Adam Cuerden wrote: > Way to go. You pulled a media stunt and alienated your volunteers who > actually do the work, because you care more about an extremely

Re: [Foundation-l] foundation-l Digest, Vol 74, Issue 28

2010-05-08 Thread Adam Cuerden
Way to go. You pulled a media stunt and alienated your volunteers who actually do the work, because you care more about an extremely conservative television station in America than the worldwide audience Wikipedia serves and which is the primary source of donations to the project. On Sat, May 8,

Re: [Foundation-l] foundation-l Digest, Vol 74, Issue 28

2010-05-08 Thread Adam Cuerden
The correct storyline is that Mr. Wales caved to the slightest bit of media pressure and engaged in full-out censorship of artworks and diagrams, showing that anyone who wants to get something removed from Wikipedia just has to threaten Mr. Wales. This was a disgraceful action, made all the more d