On Mon, 14 Mar 2022 at 02:57, Ramzy Muliawan wrote:
> I fail to see how *not* widely publishing the Human Rights Policy can help
> better protect the human rights of Wikimedians,
Because it avoids making the project an explicty activist one in that area.
>particularly when we are now looking
I fail to see how *not* widely publishing the Human Rights Policy can help
better protect the human rights of Wikimedians, particularly when we are
now looking at the dire and rapidly declining protection of the freedom of
expression globally.
We can debate how the implementation of this policy
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
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,
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,
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
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
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
