I think we need to be very specific when we talk about advice to
Wikimedians in Arab countries re going to Haifa. Encouraging
Wikimedians who live in countries where it would be illegal to visit
Israel to break the laws of the country they live in and attend such a
public event strikes me as
On 07/06/2011 11:13 AM, WereSpielChequers wrote:
Encouraging Wikimedians who live in countries where it would be
illegal to visit Israel to break the laws of the country they live in
and attend such a public event strikes me as inappropriate and
unethical (lobbying to change a law is something
Absolutely if someone does come from a country that has laws against
their attending then we should do our best to keep them safe. I hope
that my concerns turn out to be overcautious, but I do worry that we
have some young, enthusiastic and occasionally naive editors, and we
could have a fellow
Visiting Israel is against the law in several Islamic countries, this
is covered in
http://wikimania2011.wikimedia.org/wiki/Visas#Visas_for_Middle_Eastern_Countries_.28other_than_Egypt_and_Jordan.29
And was discussed earlier this year at
On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 4:33 AM, Kim Bruning k...@bruning.xs4all.nl wrote:
The problem is that BDS (and others?) are explicitly acting against
wikimania. I'd love to hear more reports
on this. I think having a wikimania in haifa is actually going
to be beneficial to all parties. :-)
