MZMcBride <z...@mzmcbride.com> wrote: > It's funny, I just had a look at the wikimedia-l archive around January > 2012... you know, that time when Wikipedia literally shut itself down as a > political statement. The following month, the Wikimedia Foundation > established a "Community Advocacy" department, not to be confused with > lobbying, of which you're now a member. > > I can appreciate the many legitimate reasons to not accept Bitcoin and I'm > grateful for your candid thoughts on the matter, but the idea that you, of > all people, would try to claim that it might (gasp!) insert politics into > Wikipedia is simply disrespectful to history and reality.
I interpreted James Alexander's statement to mean that it's "not our job" and "not our role" to make the particular political statement that Bitcoin's proponents seek. This doesn't mean that it's *never* okay for us to engage in advocacy of a political nature, particularly in response to something potentially threatening a WMF project's very existence. (Whether SOPA and PIPA actually posed a significant threat is debatable, but the action in question stemmed from the belief that they did.) David Levy _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
