[Wikimedia-l] Re: Sanctions against the Russian Federation; support for Ukrainian Wikimedians

Yes, that is what we are supposed to do and supposed to be good at. Cheers, Peter From: Ilario Valdelli [mailto:valde...@gmail.com] Sent: 02 March 2022 10:31 To: Wikimedia Mailing List Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Re: Sanctions against the Russian Federation; support for Ukrainian Wikimedians

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Sanctions against the Russian Federation; support for Ukrainian Wikimedians

Hi Everyone, As you know Turkey has banned more than 2,5 year Wikipedia Project all languages. And we contributed through free VPNs in those years. Andy Mabbett was also our guest speaker during the ban for the Wikidata 6th Birthday event

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Sanctions against the Russian Federation; support for Ukrainian Wikimedians

As a member of Wikimedia Ukraine, I can say that we as an organisation proposed help for Wikipedians from Ukraine. Wikimedia Poland was also very kind to express its readiness to help. But as far as I know, no one used this help so far. чт, 3 бер. 2022 р. о 14:55 Yaroslav Blanter пише: > Males

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Sanctions against the Russian Federation; support for Ukrainian Wikimedians

Males between 18 and 60 may not leave the country (and probably do not want to do it anyway), so that there could be only women, old people, and children among the refugees. Given the gender gap situation, probably there are not so many Wikipedians among them, but I hope if there are some, they

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Sanctions against the Russian Federation; support for Ukrainian Wikimedians

I was contacted by two wikipedians from Ukraine which I know personally with questions about the situation at Polish border and what documents they need to enter. I just answered them + gave my private phone number, but till then I haven't heard from them, so they either decided to stay or are

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Sanctions against the Russian Federation; support for Ukrainian Wikimedians

On Wed, 2 Mar 2022 at 18:04, Stephen LaPorte wrote: > The Foundation is undertaking several initiatives in assisting the Wikimedia > communities in Ukraine and Russia, and in reviewing the potential impacts >that the sanctions will have on the movement. We are not able to discuss all > the

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Sanctions against the Russian Federation; support for Ukrainian Wikimedians

Hello Andy, The Foundation is undertaking several initiatives in assisting the Wikimedia communities in Ukraine and Russia, and in reviewing the potential impacts that the sanctions will have on the movement. We are not able to discuss all the specifics without potential risk to those being

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Sanctions against the Russian Federation; support for Ukrainian Wikimedians

On Wed, 2 Mar 2022 at 06:26, Stephen LaPorte wrote: > We share your concern for the ongoing threats to our community members in > Ukraine and Russia, as well as our global mission to share free and open > knowledge. As Ziko just shared, the Foundation issued a statement earlier > today on the

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Sanctions against the Russian Federation; support for Ukrainian Wikimedians

From: Ilario Valdelli Sent: Wednesday, March 2, 2022 9:30 AM To: Wikimedia Mailing List Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Re: Sanctions against the Russian Federation; support for Ukrainian Wikimedians I agree and I think that the best support is to offer a neutral and complete

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Sanctions against the Russian Federation; support for Ukrainian Wikimedians

I agree and I think that the best support is to offer a neutral and complete information against any kind of propaganda. This is what Wikimedia can do better. Kind regards On Tue, 1 Mar 2022, 23:21 Valentin Nefedov, wrote: > Thanks for your support! The best "sanctions" WMF can implement is

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Sanctions against the Russian Federation; support for Ukrainian Wikimedians

Hello all, We share your concern for the ongoing threats to our community members in Ukraine and Russia, as well as our global mission to share free and open knowledge. As Ziko just shared, the Foundation issued a statement

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Sanctions against the Russian Federation; support for Ukrainian Wikimedians

you have to be careful about the strategies you use. Above all, avoid politicizing the WF Le mar. 1 mars 2022 à 15:00, Samuel Klein a écrit : > A great question! Dear renvoy, antanana and others in Ukraine, please > stay safe. > Not only, what is WMF doing, but what an we all do to help? > >

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Sanctions against the Russian Federation; support for Ukrainian Wikimedians

Hello, OSM Poland community is working on enriching map of border with Ukraine to help Ukrainian refugees access reception points. https://dopomoha.pl/en/#map=7/50.538/24.055 Pull request can be submitted here. https://github.com/openstreetmap-polska/ua-2022-map As Wikimedians, we could do

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Sanctions against the Russian Federation; support for Ukrainian Wikimedians

Have proposed that EN Wikipedia adopt a logo in support of Ukraine. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#Switching_our_logo_to_one_in_support_of_Ukraine James On Tue, Mar 1, 2022 at 3:53 PM Andy Mabbett wrote: > On Tue, 1 Mar 2022 at 22:20, Valentin Nefedov >

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Sanctions against the Russian Federation; support for Ukrainian Wikimedians

On Tue, 1 Mar 2022 at 22:20, Valentin Nefedov wrote: > More than 70 Russian Wikipedians wrote open letter to us on our village pump > where they condemned the invasion This is really heartening. I am pleased - but not in the east surprised - to see the signatories include several people I count

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Sanctions against the Russian Federation; support for Ukrainian Wikimedians

Thanks for your support! The best "sanctions" WMF can implement is raising awareness about the whole situation. For example, the promotion of Ukraine's Cultural Diplomacy Month 2022 . About Russian Wikipedia: unfortunately,

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Sanctions against the Russian Federation; support for Ukrainian Wikimedians

I wonder if a banner raising awareness regarding the existence of offline apps specifically Kiwix for when communication goes down would be useful? https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.kiwix.kiwixmobile=en_CA=US We also have Internet in a Box, with instruction on how to build your

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Sanctions against the Russian Federation; support for Ukrainian Wikimedians

+1 on the "what can we all do to help?" question. On the VPN topic, I suspect the functionary teams will be pretty open to granting IPBE for folks editing from that region. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:IP_block_exemption#Used_for_anonymous_proxy_editing has details if anyone needs it.

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Sanctions against the Russian Federation; support for Ukrainian Wikimedians

By the way, Andy, should you not have seen this: https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2022/03/01/wikimedia-foundation-calls-for-continued-access-to-free-and-open-knowledge-as-ukraine-crisis-continues/?fbclid=IwAR0k14v7WgnBC33QJOzucOQABp90amfHoXFiKzPgGftLhOXtmFRF3POFSVc Kind regards Ziko Am Di.,

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Sanctions against the Russian Federation; support for Ukrainian Wikimedians

A great question! Dear renvoy, antanana and others in Ukraine, please stay safe. Not only, what is WMF doing, but what an we all do to help? Here's a potential Ru block in the works, and a request for better VPN support for editors in the region.