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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http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
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
Well said. Everything is political, and when the movement choses not to
speak out or state an opinion on something, then we are giving our support
to the status quo.
Believing yourself to be apolitical is as much a fantasy as being
completely objective, it is inherently impossible.
Rebecca
On
Absolutely agree with both. Everything we do in the wiki movement (as
everything we do in our whole life) has (also) a political meaning.
As we have certain goals and we take certain positions.
Camelia
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*Camelia Boban*
*| Java EE Developer |*
*Affiliations Committee - **Wikimedia
It is said quite often that the Wikimedia-movement is apolitical. In
strongly believe the movement with its goal has never been, and never will
be apolitical. When we say that knowledge should be free and fully
available for everyone, then we make a political statement. It may not
align with you
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
I have been waiting for more than three years for the WMF to settle
the question (below) of whether our long-term editor community
supports political activism, and if so, what sort, by surveying the
opinions of established editors. I was promised that the WMF would
include such questions in their
Hello,
That's super great news. I definitely want to try it. Thanks a lot for
working on this.
Thanks
Tito Dutta
Note: If I don't reply to your email in 2 days, please feel free to remind
me over email or phone call.
On Sun, 26 Apr 2020 at 01:57, Amir Sarabadani wrote:
> Hey,
> "Wikimedia
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,
I told so many times WMF should support infrastructure for the volunteers, so
thank you very much for this step in that direction.
A.M.
Il domenica 26 aprile 2020, 01:08:01 CEST, Tito Dutta
ha scritto:
Hello,
That's super great news. I definitely want to try it. Thanks a lot for
Hey,
"Wikimedia Meet" [0] (https://meet.wmcloud.org), is a project in Wikimedia
CloudVPS for Wikimedians to meet virtually instead of using commercial
services like Zoom which might have security and privacy implications
[1][2]. Currently it's a jitsi (jitsi.org) installation.
If you want to just
Greetings,
It is asked: "are we apolitical?" A spin-off question: "are we unbiased?"
On Wikipedia, we (are to) provide and serve knowledge/information, not any
particular view(s)
Thanks
Tito Dutta
On Sun, 26 Apr 2020 at 00:34, Chris Gates via Wikimedia-l <
wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org>
I proofread the email several times and still managed to miss an important
point:
This installation is not large and currently, it wouldn't be able to handle
100 people. It worked fine with 10 people in a meeting but not much more
than that. So please be mindful in using this resource.
On Sat,
Agreed. There is no way to get around the fact that some people oppose our
message of free access to our projects for everyone, and the actions we
make in favor of that goal are often political.
However, there is a very large gap between publicly supporting such
policies as a less regulated
Hi,
There isn't such a thing as just one politics, therefore, the subject line
question is really broad.
We are not apolitical about free knowledge, no doubt about that. On the
other hand, we as a movement can be or become apolitical in other political
fields. All this discussion, in my opinion,
Kaya
From my perspective we have always been political, from the moment we
started with the concept of Free Knowledge, Eduardo listed many of the
aspects that go with it. We are doing so much more we want
anyone/everyone to contribute regardless of social standing, we spend
millions on
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
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