I have another question about that document:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Legal/Foundation_Policy_and_Political_Association_Guideline
In particular, I believe this part is out of date:
> Legislative Activities (Lobbying)
>
> At the federal level, there are serious restrictions on lobbying,
On Sat, 25 Apr 2020 at 16:44, Andy Mabbett wrote:
>
> On Fri, 24 Apr 2020 at 07:27, Yair Rand wrote:
>
> > Also importantly, the Foundation's Policy and Political Association
> > Guideline, which was written by WMF Legal in the aftermath of SOPA
>
> Link, please.
A link has been provided,
On Fri, 24 Apr 2020 at 07:27, Yair Rand wrote:
> Also importantly, the Foundation's Policy and Political Association
> Guideline, which was written by WMF Legal in the aftermath of SOPA
Link, please.
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Andy Mabbett@pigsonthewing
http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
Can everyone please calm down.
This is (nearly) only hyperbole.
Thank you.
/jeblad
On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 8:51 AM Fæ wrote:
> OPEN LETTER
>
> Dear Katherine Maher,
>
> The WMF home website landing page (https://wikimediafoundation.org)
> yesterday featured a full-page banner directing all
> the Foundation's Policy and Political Association Guideline, which
> was written by WMF Legal in the aftermath of SOPA to iron
> out clear boundaries on activism, explicitly rules out any political
> activism relating to environmental issues, stating:
>> Policy and political associations should
On Sat, Apr 25, 2020 at 10:54 AM Mario Gómez wrote:
> As far as I know, criticism of political lobbying by the WMF is generally
> frowned upon here. Including aspersion casting against critics.
>
Um, what? As a (volunteer) list administrator of this mailing list, and
indeed a (paid) Foundation
Thanks to Greg for the quick official response from the WMF which
includes the active recognition and acceptance of the problem.
The open letter was also published on meta at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Foundation_website#Website_full_page_banner_promoting_EarthdayLive2020.org
On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 8:51 AM Fæ wrote:
>
> Could you, or the responsible member of your management team, please
> explain exactly how this happened?
>
>
As far as I know, criticism of political lobbying by the WMF is generally
frowned upon here. Including aspersion casting against critics.
I
Had the WMF just mentioned Earth Day, I don't think there would have been
any trouble with that. The issue here is the support of an explicitly
political organization, not just of Earth Day. I can't imagine anyone could
have had an issue with an anodyne banner saying something like "Remember
our
Given that this page
https://www.earthdaylive2020.org/vote/
clearly aims at influencing the election of political candidates to
public office and "build political pressure", can we expect the Wikimedia
Foundation to file Form 1120-POL as mandated by the IRS?
Everyone supports Earth Day.
Earth Day Live was confusingly different... in a strange time.
On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 10:42 PM Chris Gates via Wikimedia-l <
wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Adding onto this, it appears the WMF is proudly and publicly displayed on
> the participants, which
Hello,
this is about different things. One is an opinion about Earth Day, one is
an opinion about the organization behind a specific event, and one is an
opinion about whether the WMF should link to this specific event.
For example, I am not against protecting the climate. I might have some
We have this article as well:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Day_Live
Best
Yaroslav
On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 10:31 PM Michael Peel wrote:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Day is not the same as
> https://www.earthdaylive2020.org/ - but the link was to the latter.
>
> Thanks,
> Mike
>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Day is not the same as
https://www.earthdaylive2020.org/ - but the link was to the latter.
Thanks,
Mike
> On 24 Apr 2020, at 21:26, Robert Fernandez wrote:
>
> FFS who is against Earth Day? Every organization and company
> probably mentions it or observes
FFS who is against Earth Day? Every organization and company
probably mentions it or observes it in some way. Get over yourselves.
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Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and
It has been deleted. They TL has some RTs done in the previous days.
From: Wikimedia-l on behalf of Gereon
Kalkuhl
Sent: Friday, April 24, 2020 4:47 PM
To: wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF political activism
The Twitter link does
To: Wikimedia Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF political activism
The concept "apolitical" does not exist if there is a goal.
Nevertheless, for the future, a link to the article about "Earth" in all the
languages Wikimedia has would be the best soluti
Gregory,
Thank you for your response.
I am happy to hear that the intent was apolitical. However, it was quite
clear from the minute the campaign went live that they had no intention of
being apolitical. Though most of the political propaganda was propagated by
people in the live-streams, the
Mmm... again?
https://twitter.com/Wikimedia/status/1253670025426202624
From: Wikimedia-l on behalf of Galder
Gonzalez Larrañaga
Sent: Friday, April 24, 2020 11:26 AM
To: Wikimedia Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF political activism
The concept
Rand
Sent: Friday, April 24, 2020 8:27 AM
To: Wikimedia Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF political activism
This would not have happened had there been any oversight (community or
otherwise), and it could have been pulled down quickly enough had there
been any community members with
This would not have happened had there been any oversight (community or
otherwise), and it could have been pulled down quickly enough had there
been any community members with the ability to edit the site. Perhaps it's
time to reconsider how the WMF corporate site operates.
I appreciate that the
On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 1:18 AM Gregory Varnum
wrote:
>
> Having said that, we agree with some of the criticisms you have raised. We
> had understood the Earth Day Live campaign to be both global and
> apolitical. However, we agree that the final campaign was both more
> US-centric and more
Hi all,
I am responding on behalf of the Foundation in my capacity handling movement
communications, including managing any campaigns on wikimediafoundation.org.
As others from the Foundation have stated on this mailing list in the past,
from time to time the Wikimedia Foundation engages in
Adding onto this, it appears the WMF is proudly and publicly displayed on
the participants, which may as well be endorsements, page for Earth Day
Live: https://www.earthdaylive2020.org/get-involved/
I'm simply astounded by this. Never would I have expected the WMF to take
such a strong political
Should this be posted on wiki for others to sign?
Samuel
On Thu, 23 Apr 2020 at 07:51, Fæ wrote:
> OPEN LETTER
>
> Dear Katherine Maher,
>
> The WMF home website landing page (https://wikimediafoundation.org)
> yesterday featured a full-page banner directing all visitors globally
> to
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T250508
On Thu, 23 Apr 2020 at 09:53, Chris Gates via Wikimedia-l
wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> It seems that they just gave a link to that website, which...eh...
> When I opened it, I heard one sentence of the stream before I stopped it
> and read the rest of the webpage:
Hi,
It seems that they just gave a link to that website, which...eh...
When I opened it, I heard one sentence of the stream before I stopped it
and read the rest of the webpage: "and then we give thanks to spirit, for
the air we breathe, for the earth..." After reading the rest of the
webpage, I
Hello,
I can confirm that I see the same also here in the Netherlands. Which is
strange, there are no general elections here before 2021...
An explanation about this link would be interesting.
Kind regards
Ziko
Am Mi., 22. Apr. 2020 um 22:50 Uhr schrieb Yair Rand :
> The WMF corporate site
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