Hi Novem, Setting aside the question of whether the Smithsonian is really part of the Federal Government (not quite; it's a trust established by Congress with a governing body made up of members of all arms of the US government...) -
The Trump administration isn't worrying too much about the legality of some of its executive orders, so the WMF not being part of the federal government isn't that much relief. A scenario where the administration threatens the WMF in order to attempt to enforce some of the administration's wishes is, though perhaps not entirely likely, worryingly plausible. Such threats could be made against the WMF itself, its assets, its technical infrastructure, or individuals related to the WMF (including project volunteers). To James' original point - doubtless the WMF is thinking carefully about how to avoid such a scenario, and how to react to it if such a thing became reality. However the WMF's usual approach when dealing with rogue states threatening the integrity of Wikipedia seems to be that it would be unhelpful (indeed, counterproductive) to be too public about such scenario planning). Chris On Sun, Mar 30, 2025 at 8:50 PM <novemling...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi James, > > I'm not the WMF, but I believe the part "I not[e] that the HQ of Wikipedia > is in America and so it would be subject to any executive order request, > just as the smithothian museums have been" is incorrect. Executive orders > in USA are used by the president to give orders to the federal government. > The Wikimedia Foundation is not the federal government so is not directly > subject to executive orders. The Smithsonian, on the other hand, is the > federal government. > > Hope that helps. > > Sincerely, > Novem Linguae > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org, guidelines > at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > Public archives at > https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/message/H4A36NCYQBO2SBCWYZUCJRVHZ4FQQTLS/ > To unsubscribe send an email to wikimedia-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org >
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