Thank for sharing the wonderful news Amanda! Welcome back Turkey!! Warmly, Rupika
On Thu, Jan 16, 2020, 11:51 PM Amanda Keton <ake...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > My name is Amanda Keton, the new General Counsel at the Wikimedia > Foundation. While Katherine is inflight traveling back from a busy week of > community meetings in Chile, I wanted to share the exciting news that > today, we have started to receive reports that the block of Wikipedia in > Turkey is being lifted, data which is also indicated by our internal > traffic reports. After more than two and a half years, access to Wikipedia > has been restored in Turkey - and on a timely occasion, as we celebrate > Wikipedia’s 19th birthday today! > > Please join me in welcoming back our friends and colleagues from Turkey. > While many have remained active during the block, restoring access to > Wikipedia will allow thousands more to return in the days and weeks ahead. > It is our shared responsibility and honor to help make them feel welcome > again and make sure they know how much we missed them. I am confident that > our community will successfully welcome them back with open arms. I know we > have community members around the world who have been eagerly looking > forward to the block being lifted and brainstorming activities to > celebrate, and I welcome them to share their ideas as we move forward. > > Our case in the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) is also still > pending, and remains important even in light of the unblock as a way to > continue advocating for strong protections for free expression online. We > will continue to post updates about the next steps in our case before the > ECHR on the Wikimedia Foundation website. We have also published a > statement to reflect that access has now been restored in Turkey. [1] > > Thank you all for your efforts, kind words, and encouraging thoughts as we > worked to restore access to Wikipedia in Turkey. I want to thank our > Turkish community, in particular, for their patience, resolution, and > continued participation in the movement during the more than two and a half > years Wikipedia was inaccessible. This was a prolonged global effort, on > behalf of free knowledge everywhere. > > Of course, there are other blocks around the world still in place, and our > efforts in addressing this type of censorship of knowledge is far from > over. That said, I hope all of you will celebrate this momentous > accomplishment for free knowledge today and join me in welcoming back the > people of Turkey to our projects, movement, and community. > > With gratitude, > > Amanda > > [1] > > https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2020/01/16/access-to-wikipedia-restored-in-turkey-after-more-than-two-and-a-half-years/ > -- > > Amanda Keton (she/her) > > General Counsel > > Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/> > *NOTICE: This message may be confidential or legally privileged. If you > have received it by accident, please delete it and let us know about the > mistake. As an attorney for the Wikimedia Foundation, for legal and ethical > reasons, I cannot give legal advice to, or serve as a lawyer for, community > members, volunteers, or staff members in their personal capacity. For more > on what this means, please see our legal disclaimer > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Legal_Disclaimer>.* > _______________________________________________ > 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: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?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: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
