On Wed, 2009-11-04 at 00:06 -0500, wjhon...@aol.com wrote:
Public-service broadcasting does have ads. For one they advertise
themselves, they also advertise their own sponsors (Paid for by the
Annenburg Group... and so on).
But the sort of advertisement of which we're speaking isn't that
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 7:30 AM, Brian McNeil
brian.mcn...@wikinewsie.org wrote:
No. The community cannot act outwith with WMF mission and project
guidelines.
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Mission_statement
* Adverts do not qualify as educational content
On Wed, 2009-11-04 at 11:38 -0400, Nathan wrote:
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 7:30 AM, Brian McNeil
brian.mcn...@wikinewsie.org wrote:
No. The community cannot act outwith with WMF mission and project
guidelines.
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Mission_statement
* Adverts do not
In a message dated 11/4/2009 7:47:50 AM Pacific Standard Time,
brian.mcn...@wikinewsie.org writes:
Yes I did. It still violates all the WMF principles and policies I've
left above. If the Serbian mission statement allows it - the WMF will
withdraw approval for that mission statement and
Yes. Wikinews shall overthrow the foundation board, us and our 40 active
users. That would be fun.
-Jon
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 11:59, wjhon...@aol.com wrote:
In a message dated 11/4/2009 7:47:50 AM Pacific Standard Time,
brian.mcn...@wikinewsie.org writes:
Yes I did. It still violates all
On Wed, 2009-11-04 at 14:59 -0500, wjhon...@aol.com wrote:
In a message dated 11/4/2009 7:47:50 AM Pacific Standard Time,
brian.mcn...@wikinewsie.org writes:
Yes I did. It still violates all the WMF principles and policies
I've
left above. If the Serbian mission statement allows it -
In a message dated 11/4/2009 12:12:20 PM Pacific Standard Time,
brian.mcn...@wikinewsie.org writes:
If it existed to serve whatever the hell the community works it would
allow members - it doesn't. You know why? To *protect the mission*. That
mission is not there for others to exploit for
On Wed, 2009-11-04 at 22:30 +, Sue Gardner wrote:
I'm staying out of the specifics, but I'll respond to Will's comment, below.
The
Wikimedia Foundation does not work for the community. The Wikimedia
Foundation works to advance the mission. The Wikimedia Foundation has
a fiduciary
I will consider all such correspondence from this person freely
available for global distribution.
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Brian McNeil brian.mcn...@wikinewsie.org
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Brian_McNeil
Content of this message in no way represents the opinions or official
position of the Wikimedia Foundation or
Let's put it to a vote shall we?
Should a list moderator completely ban this person?
Ironic that he trots out Orwellian analogies. Particularly considering a
substantial number of the 'topically appropriate' articles I've
contributed to Wikinews.
--
Brian McNeil brian.mcn...@wikinewsie.org
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 11:25 PM, Brian McNeil
brian.mcn...@wikinewsie.orgwrote:
Let's put it to a vote shall we?
Should a list moderator completely ban this person?
Ironic that he trots out Orwellian analogies. Particularly considering a
substantial number of the 'topically appropriate'
To have friends who will treat you with kid gloves while attacking anyone who
dares to point out that you have no clothes.
Perhaps only really smart pople can see his clothes...
--
- Bawolff
Caution: The mass of this product contains the energy equivalent of 85
million tons of TNT per net ounce
Let's just allow a cooling off period.
I don't think any further discussion on-list is necessary concerning the
free advertising proposal, if it must be discussed, a discussion on-wiki
might be more appropriate since this is an en.WN issue.
Taunting the user on-list (especially when he/she can't
On Wed, 2009-11-04 at 17:33 -0600, Nathan Reed wrote:
Let's just allow a cooling off period.
I don't think any further discussion on-list is necessary concerning
the free advertising proposal, if it must be discussed, a discussion
on-wiki might be more appropriate since this is an en.WN
I haven't commented on this yet, but I do have one little comment about the
non-ideological, practical portion of this advertising thing.
The key here is that this isn't some randomly place Yahoo!/Google/MS ad on
our site (that's another topic of discussion entirely), it's us purposefully
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