Dear Joseph, all, Thank you for this update and all the work of communities going into this. A blackout or banner in France would be particularly impactful.
All the best, Jan Am 20. März 2019 22:02:31 MEZ schrieb Joseph Seddon <[email protected]>: >Hello everyone, > >As you’ve likely heard, four language Wikipedias will black out >tomorrow, >March 21, in opposition to the current version of the EU Copyright >Directive. [1] The Czech, Danish, German and Slovak Wikipedias will >display >a non-dismissible blackout overlay and block access to content for 24 >hours. These communities will be utilizing similar texts and designs >for >their blackouts. [2][3][4][5] > >In addition to these communities, there are others discussing the >possibility of a banner and/or a blackout. Discussions and voting >appear to >be actively occurring on Estonian, French and Italian Wikipedias whilst >other community conversations have either stalled or gone quiet. > >The final vote on the Directive is expected to take place on Tuesday, >March >26. This means that communities looking to make an impact on the >outcome of >the vote will need to make decisions surrounding community actions, by >the >latest, the evening of Sunday March 24. > >There is a good deal of coordination and technical work that goes into >these initiatives. In order for us to best support communities in the >implementation of their decision, we want to encourage interested >communities to come to a decision, whether for or against, and reach >out to >us as soon as possible. > >Thanks, > >Seddon > >[1] >https://wikimediafoundation.org/2019/03/20/four-wikipedias-to-black-out-over-eu-copyright-directive/ > >[2] Czech/Danish blackout: >https://cs.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=NASA&banner=EU_Blackout_2019&uselang=cs&force=1 > >[3] Czech banner: >https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Trademark/Request_a_license_form/zh&banner=EU2019_banner_large&uselang=en&force=1 > >[4] German blackout: >https://de.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=NASA&banner=EU_Blackout_2019_de&uselang=de&force=1 >[5] Slovak blackout: >https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fundraising_2011/Jimmy_Letter_002/en-gb&banner=EU_Copyright_SK_Parliament&uselang=en&force=1
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