Good luck, all. We're cheering for you. On Fri, Mar 15, 2019, 9:48 PM Joseph Seddon <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello all, > > As you are aware, the German community has voted in favor of a blackout of > German Wikipedia. The blackout is set to take place on March 21st. We have > been working closely with the German community to develop a strategy to > best support the implementation of this decision. We are currently > fine-tuning the text and design for the blackout to ensure the messaging is > clear and accurate. > > A number of other communities are in active discussions some of which > appear to be expressing consensus in favor of a banner, a blackout, or a > combination of the two. We want to ensure materials including, banners and > blackouts are easily accessible and adaptable for use on all languages in > the com > > Those materials we are preparing will be ready in the next few days, but > we’d like to take this opportunity to contextualize them by outlining our > approach. Our materials aim to do the following: > > - *Avoid invoking party politics. - *We want the campaign to be clearly > and unequivocally about the Directive text, not about particular parties or > candidates. We will also avoid linking to any campaigns that encourage the > support or opposition of specific candidates > > > - *Focus on the issues.* - We will hone in on the particular articles in > the Directive that are causing problems with the text, specifically > Articles 11 and 13. > > > - *Contain our own neutral material. *We believe it's imperative to have > airtight arguments and intentional framing. While other sites have great > initiatives underway, we cannot ensure that external content will remain > consistent with our message. > > > - *Have a uniform call to action.* Where we link to content, we will link > to fixcopyright.wikimedia.org, which will when updated direct users to > contact their MEPs through the European Parliament's website, We believe > concerted action will have more effect than disperse, uncoordinated action > between communities. > > > - *Communicate in a concise, direct and factual style*, so as to avoid > confusing our message. > > Please distribute this message to your communities as you see fit. We > would like the communities voting in favor of an action to know that we are > working on the tools and messaging to support their decision. > > > Feel free to contact myself if you have any questions about the > implementation of on wiki community actions. > > Many thanks! > > Seddon > > [1] > https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meinungsbilder/Protest_gegen_EU-Urheberrechtsreform > _______________________________________________ > Publicpolicy mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/publicpolicy >
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