If there is anything the pledge2019.eu campaign can do to support your efforts, 
let me know.

If you need explainer material, we created this animation video for article 13 
(cc-by-sa)
EN: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyUh9wOp_Rw
DE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=651XS0O39bc&t=131s

Best,
Thomas

> On 16.03.2019, at 05:57, Luis Villa <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Good luck, all. We're cheering for you.
> 
> On Fri, Mar 15, 2019, 9:48 PM Joseph Seddon <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[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 <http://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
>  
> <https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meinungsbilder/Protest_gegen_EU-Urheberrechtsreform>
> _______________________________________________
> Publicpolicy mailing list
> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/publicpolicy 
> <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/publicpolicy>
> _______________________________________________
> Publicpolicy mailing list
> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/publicpolicy 
> <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/publicpolicy>

Attachment: signature.asc
Description: Message signed with OpenPGP

_______________________________________________
Publicpolicy mailing list
[email protected]
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/publicpolicy

Reply via email to