Thanks for sharing LC. Hopefully, these statements will translate into concrete actions. As human beings, the members of the Board are susceptible to error. But there is still an opportunity for the statements to influence urgent decision-making.
Best regards, *Iván Martínez* *Voluntario - Wikimedia México A.C.User:ProtoplasmaKid * // Mis comunicaciones respecto a Wikipedia/Wikimedia pueden tener una moratoria en su atención debido a que es un voluntariado. // Ayuda a proteger a Wikipedia, dona ahora: https://donate.wikimedia.org El vie, 10 de oct de 2025, 14:08, L C <[email protected]> escribió: > It helps provide some context for current statements this week by > Wikimedia Foundation board members about freedom of speech, compared > to what they used to say when they wanted your vote. This is > especially sharp as it has gradually been revealed that the rejection > is based on their perceptions, rather than facts, about what the > candidates had posted, or might at some point perhaps post on social > media, along with apparently taking extremist press including blatant > misinformation as a starting point for a "fixing" or political > censorship of the Wikimedia vote process. > > If the following trustees no longer stand by their own election > candidate statements or other published robust defenses of free > speech, please resign now and stand for your stated values, or just > restart the vote to include the original 6 candidates. > > == Statements about freedom of speech and diversity. == > > Trustee Nataliia Tymkiv "I believe it is important to have a Thriving > Movement: we need to welcome newcomers and commit to providing more > timely and responsive support to affiliates, and to our communities at > large. Diversity and inclusion are not buzz-words for me - they have > guided our successful recruitment efforts at the Board level these > past years." > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliate-selected_Board_seats/2019/Nominations/Nataliia_Tymkiv > > Trustee Mike Peel "Safe and collaborative spaces are really important. > While I do not have experience with creating them, I support and > encourage them as much as I can. I have also seen the after-effects of > dictatorships and censorship in both Brasil and Spain, although I have > not experienced it directly: the best I can do is to help document > this and hope it doesn't happen again in the future." > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2022/Candidates/Mike_Peel > > Trustee Jimmy Wales "I'm a big advocate of freedom: freedom of speech, > freedom of expression, freedom of thought." > 2005 interview with The Independent. > > Trustee Shani Evenstein "I’ve always been interested in, and later > advocated for, freedom of expression and choice, anti-censorship, > anti-repression, and for Open Knowledge as a basic human right." > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2022/Candidates/Shani_Evenstein_Sigalov > > Trustee Christel Steigenberger "Only by inviting as many viewpoints in > as possible, by discussing and reflecting about all the different > perspectives on the world and all there is to know about it, can we > continue to hold up the commitment of freely sharing the sum of all > knowledge with every single human being." > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2024/Questions_for_candidates/Question_5 > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list -- [email protected], 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/[email protected]/message/37VTJC4LZC2PDOAECWVOYJU7EBD4O74K/ > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
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