Speaking only for myself, not as a member of the board, I don't know of any legal or other reason why this should not be done. I think we should be very careful about links or appearance of endorsement especially on article pages, but outreach to people in the world should take place wherever we find a willing and useful audience.
On 2/28/18 6:29 AM, Minata Hatsune wrote: > I know it based on local consensus, but what I mean here is: those > consensus valid for WMF Term of Use and others policies or not? Because it > same with Wikipedia have linked with 3rd party, which is a commerical > website. > > Trần Nguyễn Minh Huy > Vietnamese Wikimedian > > 2018-02-28 18:52 GMT+09:00 James Heilman <[email protected]>: > >> IMO this is based on local community consensus. It is not a global policy. >> >> James >> >> On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 9:14 AM, Minata Hatsune <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Hello, I have a question: is it legal and valid for Wikipedia communities >>> put promotion links to their Facebook pages on public space as Main Page >> or >>> Sitenotice? >>> >>> I see many of Wikimedia projects doing this, as Indonesia Wikipedia, >> Arabic >>> Wikipedia, etc... Their Facebooks page also have blue checkmark of >> Facebook >>> as verified. >>> >>> All what I concern is: Facebook is a commerical website, we put a link as >>> "official" to them, will it same with Wikipedia biased for Facebook and >>> violated the NPOV policy? And in finally: is it OK if other projects can >> do >>> that? Vietnamese Wikipedia also have a discussion about sitenotice >>> promotion to Facebook at < >>> https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Th%E1%BA%A3o_lu%E1% >>> BA%ADn/Qu%E1%BA%A3ng_b%C3%A1_trang_Facebook_%22Wikipedia_ >>> ti%E1%BA%BFng_Vi%E1%BB%87t%22 >>>> . If this is OK, I think we have no reason to reject it. >>> >>> Thank you! >>> >>> Trần Nguyễn Minh Huy >>> Vietnamese Wikimedian >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> James Heilman >> MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian >> _______________________________________________ >> 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> > _______________________________________________ > 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> > _______________________________________________ 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>
