Are we planning to post that directly or just link to a copy on their fb/ on wiki?
James Alexander Legal and Community Advocacy Wikimedia Foundation (415) 839-6885 x6716 @jamesofur On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 11:04 AM, Carlos Monterrey <[email protected] > wrote: > *Hello,* > > *Please take a moment to read and review the updated SM calendar which has > a message which we plan to post today on behalf of Wikimedia Russia > regarding the Crimean crisis and Wikipedia editors. * > > *Thanks! * > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Social_media/Calendar#March_25 > > *f/g: > The following post is from Wikimedia Russia. > > Most people know what the Crimea crisis is and everybody has their own > opinion about who's right and who's wrong. Unfortunately, such situations > happen, 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 the Russian language, not Wikipedia > of the 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 produce neutral point of views. > > 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 views: what Ukrainian > view is, what Russian view is, what other countries do and think, according > to reliable sources. > > 3. Wikipedia describes disputes but doesn't engage in them. We want to > state once more, that we are not looking for absolute truth and we won't > agree with personal attacks from 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. Our previous experiences > prove that "discuss, then edit" is the best practice. For example, the > similar disputes are connected with Nagorno-Karabakh, Kosovo, etc. > > We kindly ask editors to stay calm, show respect to other editors and > discuss all edits based on reliable sources. Wikipedia has rules and > policies, we hope that our editors and readers are able to cope with this > accordingly. > > -- > Carlos Monterrey > Communications Associate > Wikimedia Foundation > +1.415.839.6885 ext 6881 > www.wikimediafoundation.org > blog.wikimedia.org > > _______________________________________________ > Social-media mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/social-media > >
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