Re: [Wikimedia-l] guidance from Foundation leadership as to where to draw the line on policy requests?

James Salsman wrote: >I can not in good conscience refrain from asking the Foundation management >and Board to please take an exceptional, public, very visible stand in >response to these extraordinarily exceptional circumstances. > >[...] > >If those of you who find my requests uncomfortable do

Re: [Wikimedia-l] guidance from Foundation leadership as to where to draw the line on policy requests?

So now I'm put into the awkward position of having to agree with essentially everything the post said, and still have to disagree with it having been made. The WMF should not be taking political stances without input and consensus from the community. Period. If it thought it needed to in this

Re: [Wikimedia-l] guidance from Foundation leadership as to where to draw the line on policy requests?

I really want to thank the Wikimedia foundation and Katherine Maher for taking such a clear position on this matter. Kind ragards, Natacha Rault / Nattes à chat > Le 2 févr. 2017 à 07:48, Bill Takatoshi a écrit : > > On Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 1:02 AM, Michael Peel

Re: [Wikimedia-l] guidance from Foundation leadership as to where to draw the line on policy requests?

On Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 1:02 AM, Michael Peel wrote: > Have you seen Katherine's statement at: > https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/01/30/knowledge-knows-no-boundaries/ That statement is well worth reading. It says, "we believe in a world that encourages and protects the open

Re: [Wikimedia-l] guidance from Foundation leadership as to where to draw the line on policy requests?

I strongly support keeping messages without a clear connection to Wikimedia's purpose off this list -- especially when multiple people have already objected to a certain topic. I am as worried about world politics and the future as anybody on this list, but Wikimedia has a fairly clear mission

Re: [Wikimedia-l] guidance from Foundation leadership as to where to draw the line on policy requests?

Have you seen Katherine's statement at: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/01/30/knowledge-knows-no-boundaries/ ? I know gmail has an option to hide email threads, but it's not a standard email application feature, and it's not

[Wikimedia-l] guidance from Foundation leadership as to where to draw the line on policy requests?

I can not in good conscience refrain from asking the Foundation management and Board to please take an exceptional, public, very visible stand in response to these extraordinarily exceptional circumstances. Top officials from the US and China say war between the nations is "no doubt" a