On 29 April 2017 at 22:11, Juliet Barbara <[email protected]> wrote: > Thank you, everyone, for your messages regarding the situation in Turkey. > As you can imagine, this has been a very busy time for the Wikimedia > Foundation's Legal, Communications, Technical Operations, and Community > Engagement departments, and we apologize for not being able to respond to > Wikimedia-l sooner. > > > We are planning to publish a statement on the Wikimedia blog soon. In the > meantime, we have been handling media and other inquiries with the > following short statement, which we shared with the Communications > Committee (ComCom) earlier this morning: > > > "The Wikimedia Foundation has learned that access to Wikipedia has been > blocked in Turkey as of Saturday, April 29th. Wikipedia is a rich and > valuable source of neutral, reliable information in hundreds of languages, > written by volunteers around the world. We are committed to ensuring that > Wikipedia remains available to the millions of people who rely on it in > Turkey. To that end, we are actively working with outside counsel to seek > judicial review of the decision affecting access to Wikipedia. We hope the > issue can be resolved promptly." > > > We will continue to do our best to monitor this discussion, but I ask for > your patience as we are managing inquiries coming in from multiple places. > > > If you are receiving media inquiries about this, please contact > [email protected] and we will be able to assist you. At this point, we > believe that the most valuable point Wikimedians can make on behalf of > Wikipedia is explaining its value as an educational resource. > > > Thank you! > > Juliet >
FWIW the two articles the Turkish state is apparently complaining about are: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State-sponsored_terrorism#Turkey https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_involvement_in_the_Syrian_Civil_War#Turkey -- geni _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
