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Wikimedia pornography row deepens as Wales cedes rights
- pavel_lishin 16y ago> On Sunday, in response, Jimmy Wales voluntarily revoked many of the "permissions" given to him as Wikipedia's founder, to delete and edit "protected" content on Wikimedia Commons. > In a message to the Wikimedia Foundation mailing list he said this was "in the interest of encouraging this discussion to be about real philosophical/content issues, rather than be about me and how quickly I acted". That's interesting. I wonder if it's true.
- bbatsell 16y agoHe's got the founder flag and access to the database, so he can easily just flip the bits back whenever he wants to. However, I've witnessed a number of debates over Jimbo's (ab)use of his privileges and he's never done this in response, so he at least seems to be taking it seriously (for Wikipedia e-drama values of "seriously").
- duskwuff 16y agoJimbo still has the founder flag. What he's done has been to remove most of its privileges: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&user=Jimbo+Wales http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&us...
- jacquesm 16y agoGreat going by Fox News to put the squeeze on wikipedias corporate donors, that will really help. The world could do fine without Fox, I wonder what it would be like without wikipedia. I use it only about 10 times per day or so :(