User talk:Themfromspace

Welcome to Meta!

Hello Themfromspace, and welcome to the Wikimedia Meta-Wiki! This website is for coordinating and discussing all Wikimedia projects. You may find it useful to read our policy page. If you are interested in doing translations, visit Meta:Babylon. You can also leave a note on Meta:Babel or Wikimedia Forum (please read the instructions at the top of the page before posting there). If you would like, feel free to ask me questions on my talk page. Happy editing! Themfromspace 17:24, 1 June 2009 (UTC)

Themfromspace 17:24, 1 June 2009 (UTC)

Opinions

Yours are rather logical and I can relate to some of them, but in the midst of discouraging discrimination against those accurately labeled, I hope it is not forgotten to look at whether labeling is done accurately or if it is embellished to categorize opposition into an inaccurate and more vulnerable sector and squelch them before they can speak their mind otherwise as to the assessments. Ty 05:58, 3 July 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for the positive feedback, although I don't really follow you. Can you rephrase what you wrote after the last comma? Themfromspace 03:43, 6 July 2010 (UTC)

Superprotect letter update

Hi Themfromspace,

Along with more hundreds of others, you recently signed Letter to Wikimedia Foundation: Superprotect and Media Viewer, which I wrote.

Today, we have 562 signatures here on Meta, and another 61 on change.org, for a total of 623 signatures. Volunteers have fully translated it into 16 languages, and begun other translations. This far exceeds my most optimistic hopes about how many might sign the letter -- I would have been pleased to gain 200 siguatures -- but new signatures continue to come.

I believe this is a significant moment for Wikimedia and Wikipedia. Very rarely have I seen large numbers of people from multiple language and project communities speak with a unified voice. As I understand it, we are unified in a desire for the Wikimedia Foundation to respect -- in actions, in addition to words -- the will of the community who has built the Wikimedia projects for the benefit of all humanity. I strongly believe it is possible to innovate and improve our software tools, together with the Wikimedia Foundation. But substantial changes are necessary in order for us to work together smoothly and productively. I believe this letter identifies important actions that will strongly support those changes.

Have you been discussing these issues in your local community? If so, I think we would all appreciate an update (on the letter's talk page) about how those discussions have gone, and what people are saying. If not, please be bold and start a discussoin on your Village Pump, or in any other venue your project uses -- and then leave a summary of what kind of response you get on the letter's talk page.

Finally, what do you think is the right time, and the right way, to deliver this letter? We could set a date, or establish a threshold of signatures. I have some ideas, but am open to suggestions.

Thank you for your engagement on this issue, and please stay in touch. -Pete F (talk) 18:53, 26 August 2014 (UTC)