Philippe Beaudette wrote: > MZMcBride wrote: >> A political (lobbying?) arm of Wikimedia? And the Wikimedia community and >> Board have said they're okay with this? > > I'm not really sure where you get that, MZ. Politics and lobbying were not > mentioned at all. > > What was mentioned was advocacy... advocacy for the community, in varying > roles and flavors. > > So to clear it up: this is not a lobbying or political wing. Or anything > that even resembles it. :)
I think, even if Wikimedia staff strictly adheres to the terms "advocacy" and "community advocacy," this fails the duck test.[1] If it's lobbying and political action that people (the Wikimedia community and the Wikimedia Board and other stakeholders) really want the Wikimedia Foundation engaged in, I can't do much to stop that (except leave). But I'm reasonably confident that most people in the Wikimedia community aren't in favor of Wikimedia being a political action committee. So I suppose I'll ask again: has the Wikimedia community or the Wikimedia Board expressed support of going forward with this? MZMcBride [1] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/duck_test#Etymology _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
