Of course not, we have a strong bias in favour of freedom of information,
accuracy, and verifiability to reliable sources. Also, officially, civil
discourse and decision by consensus. It is written into our basic policies
(speaking as an en: Wikipedian, other projects may differ). Most policy
Hey,
A quick update. In order to improve its security, from now on,
ticketmasters don't need to know your username and password (and don't send
them your desired username and password anymore). You ask them a token and
they generate you an one-time-use token for you and then you can use that
in
On Sat, Apr 25, 2020 at 11:50 AM John Erling Blad wrote:
> It is said quite often that the Wikimedia-movement is apolitical.
I'm not sure I've seen anybody say that. I have seen people say that we
should avoid political activism or lobbying when it is not part of our core
mission, and that we
Hi Rebecca and all,
On Sat, 25 Apr 2020 17:11:55 +0100
"Rebecca O'Neill" wrote:
> 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
"Is the Wikimedia movement political?"
For starters, some important points:
1. If you redefine a word to include "literally everything", you've defined
the word out of existence. The word becomes no longer useful for conveying
any information, and therefore, by any measure, you've simply made it
Very well put. S
On Sat., Apr. 25, 2020, 10:06 p.m. Gnangarra, wrote:
> 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
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In particular, I believe this part is out of date: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,
I totally agree with you, Shlomi.
Kind regards
Ziko
Am So., 26. Apr. 2020 um 17:02 Uhr schrieb Shlomi Fish <
shlo...@shlomifish.org>:
> Hi Rebecca and all,
>
> On Sat, 25 Apr 2020 17:11:55 +0100
> "Rebecca O'Neill" wrote:
>
> > Well said. Everything is political, and when the movement choses
There's a tendency of people with an association with the Wikimedia
movement to see it as a hammer that can be swung at every nail. This is
embodied most perfectly in the e-mail by Rebecca O'Neil, who claims that if
WMF doesn't take a position on any issue (or every issue?), it is taking a
Seeing as you decided to call me out specifically, that line of reasoning
falls apart when you note that WMF foundations funds and supports
initiatives that would been seen as supporting all of those examples you
gave:
- Wiki Loves Earth for animal sanctuaries, highlighting areas of natural
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