Re: [Wikimedia-l] Free Bassel

On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 3:51 PM, Gerard Meijssen wrote: > Hoi, > > If you are serious as a Wikipedian and, when you think that a Syrian can be > a Wikipedian, you may appreciate the need to know at least about some > Syrians and a little more about Syria... > > > http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.n

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Free Bassel

The Guardian piece was really good, thank you. As was the personal history Joi published: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joichi-ito/mit-researcher-sentenced-_b_8760354.html Kerry's mention is promising; let's keep pushing for visibility at this level. Sam On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 3:43 PM, Katheri

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Free Bassel

Hoi, If you are serious as a Wikipedian and, when you think that a Syrian can be a Wikipedian, you may appreciate the need to know at least about some Syrians and a little more about Syria. At the Erasmus award ceremony in a conversation with people from the Tropenmuseum the idea came up to do mo

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Free Bassel

Hi all, We thought you would want to see this story about Bassel, published in the UK's Guardian today. It quotes Jimmy, among others, and we spoke with the journalist ahead of publication. http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/dec/11/bassel-khartabil-fears-for-man-who-brought-open-internet-

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Free Bassel

Greetings, Quick update for those interested. The poll closed this weekend - as scheduled (it was a faster timeline given the urgency of the case/request). Right now, we await assessment and closure of the straw poll by a Steward (request has been made on their Noticeboard). At the time of clo

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Free Bassel

Reminder that the current discussion on the banner will be continuing on Meta-Wiki for another 12 hours: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Free_Bassel/Banner/Straw_poll As of this email, 142 people have shown support for the banner campaign and 84 have opposed the banner campaign. Thank you to ev

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Free Bassel

Hoi, As this is not a Wikipedia article, it is more of an advertisement, a call to action. Urgency is key. This is not about the well known patterns of a Wikipedia article. This is not understood, it results at this late stage in an edit war. Either we have a point and make it or we have a Wikiped

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Free Bassel

Back at my computer: I checked w/ Jon Phillips and folks at newpalmyra and freebassel.org & pointed them to the Meta talk page. It sounded from a quick chat as though they had something planned this week, but the real question is how could a campaign like this be best directed if it was carried

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Free Bassel

Has there been a discussion of timing for this? SJ (who is offline right now) just mentioned that the Free Bassel group may be planning a focused outreach push tomorrow through Friday. Let's coordinate with them if possible. On Nov 25, 2015 11:21 AM, "Gerard Meijssen" wrote: > Hoi, > I have looke

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Free Bassel

Hoi, I have looked at the article. It does not have the necessary urgency. He is likely to have been sentenced to death and the article reads like a Wikipedia article. This is Meta, it is not Wikipedia and it needs urgency. We appeal to the world to get involved to let his death not happen. That is

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Free Bassel

Thanks Katherine for this mail, it gives a lot of context and details, and also thanks for the difficult work the WMF is doing. Is the opinion of more experienced NGOs and activists that a dedicated banner/ribbon/logo would be a good idea? We all think that is an enormous power that we have as a c

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Thank you to everyone working on this. Basel is a beautiful person, who contributed in so many ways to sharing knowledge, not only in our community. A banner (in rotation for a month? with a focused drive on one day coordinated w/ other activist groups?), and possibly a logo ribbon, would be mos

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Free Bassel

FYI: User:Odder has now created [[m:Free Bassel ]], as a landing page to link from the banner. If anyone would like to help with a design for the banner (I concede not everyone shares my taste for 10pt-black-on-white text), we would be able to move ahea

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Free Bassel

Hi everyone, Thank you for raising this issue here on this list. I wanted to share some more information about how we’ve been working to support Bassel to this point, in public and behind the scenes. Unfortunately, some efforts are sensitive, so can’t be shared in full on public mailing lists. But

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Free Bassel

Thank you, Sandra, for the prompt action. Sydney On Nov 24, 2015 11:28 AM, "Sandra Rientjes Wikimedia Nederland" < rient...@wikimedia.nl> wrote: > We have put a message on the Wikimedia Nederland website. We hope to get a > lot of visitors tomorrow because of the Erasmusprize-ceremony. Not a > c

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Free Bassel

We have put a message on the Wikimedia Nederland website. We hope to get a lot of visitors tomorrow because of the Erasmusprize-ceremony. Not a central notice, but it is a start. Sandra Rientjes Directeur/Executive Director Wikimedia Nederland tel.(+31) (0)30 3200238 mob. (+31) (0)6 317863

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Yes, a CentralNotice would seem appropriate here. Please help flesh it out at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Banner:Free_Bassel . Daniel On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 3:38 PM, Gerard Meijssen wrote: > Hoi, > I have started a text.. > Thanks, > GerardM > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Banner:F

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Hoi, I have started a text.. Thanks, GerardM https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Banner:Free_Bassel On 24 November 2015 at 15:25, Pete Forsyth wrote: > +1 > Gerard, or Andrea, or anybody who knows better than myself, could you start > a draft on Meta Wiki with a proposed text for a banner, and

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Free Bassel

+1 Gerard, or Andrea, or anybody who knows better than myself, could you start a draft on Meta Wiki with a proposed text for a banner, and where it should link/what it should advise readers to do? Pete On Nov 24, 2015 3:13 AM, "Tito Dutta" wrote: > Sad news. Agree with everyone here that we shoul

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Free Bassel

Sad news. Agree with everyone here that we should do something. On 24 November 2015 at 16:38, Gerard Meijssen wrote: > Hoi, > Tomorrow we have a platform as well at the Erasmus award ceremony in > Amsterdam. It is Wikipedia, its community that is receiving the award.. > Thanks, > GerardM >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Free Bassel

Hoi, Tomorrow we have a platform as well at the Erasmus award ceremony in Amsterdam. It is Wikipedia, its community that is receiving the award.. Thanks, GerardM On 24 November 2015 at 12:03, Cristian Consonni wrote: > 2015-11-24 10:47 GMT+01:00 Andrea Zanni : > > Use the centralnotice. > >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Free Bassel

2015-11-24 10:47 GMT+01:00 Andrea Zanni : > Use the centralnotice. [...] > A Wikipedian, a member of our community sentenced to death for believing in > our Mission and Vision is something extraordinary. I understand the caution > of setting a precedent, but I think it's worth it. > > Also, remem

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Free Bassel

It one day that I have this reply in my Drafts... --- On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 6:25 PM, Samir Elsharbaty wrote: > Some suggestions of things we can do: > Use the centralnotice. --- Gerard said it too. I understand that this is something unprecedented, as it was the Wikipedia "strike" for SOPA

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Free Bassel

On 24.11.2015 08:22, Gerard Meijssen wrote: > We need to do much better than this. This is a Wikipedian. It is a notable > person in his own right and we sit on our hands? Yes. The movement needs to free resources quickly to campaign efficiently on this. Emmanuel -- Kiwix - Wikipedia Offline &

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harbaty) > > > 3. Re: Branislav Jovanovic,User:BraneJ in critical condition > > > (Samir Elsharbaty) > > > 4. Museum v. WMF and WMDE in Commons copyright lawsuit (Pine W) > > > 5. Re: Free Bassel (rupert THURNER) > > > 6. Re: Branislav Jo

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Free Bassel

vic,User:BraneJ in critical condition > > (Samir Elsharbaty) > > 4. Museum v. WMF and WMDE in Commons copyright lawsuit (Pine W) > > 5. Re: Free Bassel (rupert THURNER) > > 6. Re: Branislav Jovanovic,User:BraneJ in critical condition > > (rupert THURNER) >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Free Bassel

> > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2015 09:02:28 -0800 > From: Lila Tretikov > To: Wikimedia Mailing List > Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Free Bassel > Message-ID: > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > Gerard, this is dev

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Free Bassel

We will check on both. On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 10:17 AM, rupert THURNER wrote: > Lila, would you be able to somehow contact the Russian government? > On Nov 23, 2015 18:25, "Samir Elsharbaty" > wrote: > > > Some suggestions of things we can do: > > > > 1. The list of signatories on the amnesty

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Lila, would you be able to somehow contact the Russian government? On Nov 23, 2015 18:25, "Samir Elsharbaty" wrote: > Some suggestions of things we can do: > > 1. The list of signatories on the amnesty international website does not > include the WMF, the Wikimedia community, any of our affiliati

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Free Bassel

Some suggestions of things we can do: 1. The list of signatories on the amnesty international website does not include the WMF, the Wikimedia community, any of our affiliations or any representation from the Wikimedia movement. I wonder if we can contact them and request adding any of the above me

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Free Bassel

Gerard, this is devastating news. Please send our love to Bassel's family. I still hope this is not true. If there is anything we can do from here please let us know. Lila On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 2:12 AM, Gerard Meijssen wrote: > Hoi, > I was so afraid when I read that Bassel has been sentenced

[Wikimedia-l] Free Bassel

Hoi, I was so afraid when I read that Bassel has been sentenced to death. I read it on the website of Amnesty International [1]. I blogged about him in the past [2]. I am sad to say that it is him. Bassel was active as a Wikimedian, he worked towards making information available about Palmyra. If