Great news and welcome back indeed, Natacha / Nattes à chat > Le 16 janv. 2020 à 19:25, Rupika Sharma <ons3...@gmail.com> a écrit : > > 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>
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