Hi Rubin, Thanks for following-up on this. We're currently discussing it among the communications team. We should have an answer for you in a little while.
Thanks! Carlos M. On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 10:37 AM, rubin.happy <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello once again! > > Any news on that proposal? We are planning to post it tomorrow and wanted > to know whether you could make share and repost. > > Linar > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: rubin.happy <[email protected]> > Date: 2014-03-22 19:24 GMT+04:00 > Subject: SM proposed: Crimean crisis > To: Social media discussion list for Wikimedia projects < > [email protected]> > > > Hello to everybody! > > Crimean question is a hot topic on Russian Wikipedia now and we want to > share some basic Wikipedia principles from our Facebook page ( > https://www.facebook.com/russian.wikipedia), would you agree to share it > via Wikipedia account in Facebook/Twitter? > > I haven't posted it at Russian Wikipedia page yet and want to discuss it > before.There are a lot of questions received by our community and local > chapter and I think that this post will be useful. > Do you agree with such post or not? > > Best regards, > Linar > > > ----------------------post below---------------------------------- > Everybody knows what Crimea crisis is and everybody has his own opinion > about what happened and who was right and wrong. > > Unfortunately, such situations do happen sometimes, but what should we, > editors of Wikipedia (and especially Russian Wikipedia), do? > > it's important to state the following principles to understand this > question better: > > 1. Russian Wikipedia is Wikipedia in Russian language, not Wikipedia of > Russian Federation. We have active editors and sysops not only from Russia, > but also from Europe, Asia and America. > Due to this fact we have different opinions that help us to produce > neutral point of view with all aspects shown. > > 2. Wikipedia isn't looking for absolute truth, it should represent > "fairly, proportionately, and, as far as possible, without bias, all of the > significant views that have been published by reliable sources on a topic". > That means that we are not stating, for example, that Crimean referendum > was legitimate or not, we provide different points of view: what Ukrainian > view is, what Russian view is, what other countries do and think, according > to the reliable sources. > > 3. Wikipedia describes disputes but doesn't engage in them. So we want to > state once more, that we are not looking for absolute truth and we won't > agree with personal attacks of one group of editors to another group of > editors: all of them have equal rights. > > 4. We don't encourage mass edits in such a hot topic without prior > discussion with other editors: that's why a lot of articles of this > category are protected from editing - propose your adjustments at the talk > page and discuss them with other editors, that's > the most constructive and effective way of editing. > > 5. We admit that such articles require additional attention and that's why > our community is discussing nominations for the new mediators of this > topic. Nevertheless, even now editors and sysops invest much time and > effort to keep Wikipedia neutral and true. > > 6. Wikipedia already had some similar situations and our previous > experience prooves that "discuss, then edit" is the best practice here. For > example, the similar disputes are connected with Nagorno-Karabakh, Kosovo, > etc. > > Dear editors, we kindly ask you to stay calm, show respect to other > editors and discuss all your edits based on the reliable sources. > Wikipedia has all rules and policies required and we hope that our editors > and readers are able to cope with this. > > > _______________________________________________ > Social-media mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/social-media > > -- Carlos Monterrey Communications Associate Wikimedia Foundation +1.415.839.6885 ext 6881 www.wikimediafoundation.org blog.wikimedia.org
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