1 Jul 2012 15:21
Re: TVTropes deletes all pages with "Rape" in title under advertising pressure.
Better would be to keep those articles, and also (at some point) to preserve TVTropes. sincerely, Kim Bruning On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 06:17:57PM +0000, Mike Dupont wrote: > well i decided to delete them, and other articles dealing with peoples > personal lives. > I dont want to deal with stuff like that, > mike > > On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 8:29 PM, Mike Dupont > <jamesmikedupont@...> wrote: > > Well you think i should delete them from the speedydeletion wikia? > > http://speedydeletion.wikia.com/wiki/index.php?search=rape&fulltext=Search > > mike > > > > On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 6:02 PM, Kim Bruning <kim@...> wrote: > >> > >> Wow, thank goodness we never had advertising. The TV-Tropes wiki has been forced to censor a > >> number of pages due to advertiser pressure. > >> > >> ? ? ? ?http://www.themarysue.com/tv-tropes-rape-articles/ > >> > >> In the mean time, the discussed tropes *do* exist in our culture and in our movies. It > >> somehow feels soviet. :-/ > >> > >> sincerely,(Continue reading)
It does sound like that's quite a distinct audience here that most likely
wouldn't be interested in the other emails that are sent to WikimediaAnnounce-l (e.g. chapter and WMF
reports). I hope that there will be appropriate cross-posting to both lists for announcements that
are/may be of interest to both audiences.
Thanks,
Mike
On 1 Jul 2012, at 22:49, Gregory Varnum wrote:
> Hey Mike,
>
> I'm not sure I have a very satisfying answer beyond - I think we did not want to "spam" a low-traffic list
largely made up of non-developers with developer related updates.
>
> My sense is this list's target audience is a rather niche group of volunteers. However, their size is often
disproportionate to the value they can contribute as developers. Many are paid to maintain MediaWiki
installations and as such, already develop tools beneficial to the rest of us. However, given their
motives, they are often less engaged than our core developers. This has often led to corporate and other
powerful wikis running MediaWiki having custom extensions, themes, etc. that could benefit others. In
talking with those folks, the sense I got was they did not want the usual volunteer info, and did not want
discussions. They simply wanted to know the best ways to keep their tools alive in our developer community
without getting fully embraced in our developer community. Th
is seemed like a reasonable middle ground. That doesn't speak to every type of person that may find this list
helpful - but in general I think a very small fraction of current members of wikimediaannounce-l would
find this interesting and I think very little of that list's traffic would be interesting to the folks on
this new list. lol - that make sense?
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