Hello everyone We've published a blog post today to explain how communities decide whether or not (and how) to take action around policy proposals such as the new EU copyright directive: https://wikimediafoundation.org/2019/03/20/four-wikipedias-to-black-out-over-eu-copyright-directive/ In the post, we also explain the Wikimedia Foundation's role and how we support community decisions.
Cheers, Jan On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 2:23 PM Jan Weisensee <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >> >> > _______________________________________________ > Publicpolicy mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/publicpolicy >
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