2008/12/14 AndrewRT <[email protected]>:

> The general consensus among the Board was that we shouldn't really get
> involved as we didn't yet have chapter status. Individuals were
> encouraged to do what they could but the Board decided to stay stum
> itself and leave David and others to take the lead. Is everyone
> comfortable that that was the right decision?


FWIW, I emphasised to everyone I spoke to (and it mostly was clear in
press articles and Today show - not C4) that I was speaking as a
volunteer and not officially. In cases like this that can be very
important ...


> Presumably once Wiki UK is recognised as the chapter you would expect
> it to take more of a lead?


It would be the organisation to speak to. e.g. "While WMUK quite
definitely does not control or publish the content on Wikipedia, we
nevertheless find the censorship of encyclopedia text a worrying
development for education and informing people in the UK" would be a
perfect hypothetical comment, for example. You *can* comment on
freedom to educate and inform in the UK without crossing any streams,
I should think.


- d.

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