[Wikimedia-l] Re: Emerging human rights concern related to invasion of Ukraine

2022-03-12 Thread Pierre-Yves Beaudouin via Wikimedia-l
Thank you Maggie for your message. Let us know when the movement should communicate about this terrible news. I'm sure that a lot of affiliates would be happy to communicate on that topic, contact our governments and human rights NGOs, but we don't want to make things worse for Pessimist2006 and

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Emerging human rights concern related to invasion of Ukraine

2022-03-12 Thread Amir Sarabadani
So you're saying if WMF didn't have a human rights policy, the user would have not been arrested? Similar to the "fact" that no Wikipedian has been arrested before the inception of the policy? What kind of logic is this? On Sat, Mar 12, 2022 at 3:18 PM Philip Kopetzky wrote: > This situation

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Emerging human rights concern related to invasion of Ukraine

2022-03-12 Thread Philip Kopetzky
This situation does raise the question why the WMF decided to widely publish a human rights policy that will make the Wikimedia projects appear in less of a neutral stance than before. The fact that this move will endanger volunteers was even acknowledged in the FAQs [1], but was just waived off

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Emerging human rights concern related to invasion of Ukraine

2022-03-12 Thread Philip Kopetzky
Hi Amir, I'm pretty sure I didn't write that there should not be a policy in place and I also didn't mention the current arrests, so what exactly are you referring to? BR, Philip On Sat, 12 Mar 2022 at 15:11, Amir Sarabadani wrote: > So you're saying if WMF didn't have a human rights policy,

[Wikimedia-l] Requesting feedback on building an Event Registration System

2022-03-12 Thread Antoni Mtavangu
*Hello Wikimedians, * I am writing in the capacity as a Product Ambassador on behalf of the Campaigns Team at the Wikimedia Foundation. The Wikimedia Foundation Campaigns team focuses on building and improving tools for campaign organizers and participants. We want to make sure it is easier for

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Emerging human rights concern related to invasion of Ukraine

2022-03-12 Thread geni
On Sat, 12 Mar 2022 at 15:11, Amir Sarabadani wrote: > > So you're saying if WMF didn't have a human rights policy, the user would > have not been arrested? The policy is not worth the paper its writen on so if it in any way makes things worse its a problem >Similar to the "fact" that no

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Emerging human rights concern related to invasion of Ukraine

2022-03-12 Thread effe iets anders
My thoughts go out to the communities struggling to keep doing their 'work'. It must be incredibly challenging to maintain a neutral encyclopedia in light of government censorship, split populations, threats and violence. I know WMF is trying hard to do the right thing for editors under threat,

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Form 990 clarification request (for the attention of WMF accounts staff)

2022-03-12 Thread Gnangarra
Sorry wasnt making fun of his or anyone elses english but rather highlighting the English language in general with its US, Uk, Ca, Au, SA and how it gets taught rules to 2nd or 3rd language speakers as the primary common language we all speak its a fallacy we speak it the same way. My sincere