Estonia now has a banner campaign live (not a full blackout).

Regards
Seddon

On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 9:34 PM Jan Gerlach <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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
>>>
>>>
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Seddon

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