As far as we can see, there was no presentation proposed on that topic.

Coming to a symposium and complaining that a topic isn't being covered,
while you never proposed it in the first place, and expecting it to be put
on the agenda at short notice, is disruptive behavior.

There will be a number of Wikimania events in the coming year, for example
Wiki Indaba, where that topic could be raised.


[email protected] <[email protected]> schrieb am Fr., 20. Juli 2018,
17:39:

> With regard to my deregistration today, I have refuted the allegations that
> I attended and disrupted the Tunis Conference, was never there, also was
> not admitted to the Decolonising the Internet preconference.
>
> Not sure which is more pathetic an invitation-only, secret "Decolonising
> the Internet Conference" or a Wikimania Event held in Cape Town South
> Africa, that can't find a space for a session on apartheid memory? Yes, you
> read that right, apartheid, the thing that our country is famous for, the
> problem of lack of digital assets of banned publications like Grassroots,
> South Press and New Nation. Editors were detained and tortured, people were
> forceably disappeared, and you want me to accept the allegation that I am
> hurting the organisers and delegates feelings by raising this question
> outside the event? Why am I on the outside, because that's where I belong.
> #Wikimania #WikiRacism #WikiApartheid #WikiDeletions
>
> Placing a person under discursive sanctions, clamping down on press freedom
> and barring me from a Wikipedia Conference is never the correct response to
> the questions: What about Apartheid Deletions? What about Apartheid Memory?
> What about lack of digital assets for the anti-apartheid movement on
> Wikipedia
>
> @*jimmy_wales* <https://twitter.com/jimmy_wales> I am personally
> complaining and holding responsible for my de-registration & lack of
> apartheid memory session at @*Wikimania* <https://twitter.com/Wikimania>.
> Absolutely appalling organisers treat anti-apartheid activists with same
> contempt as apartheid state
>
> This is where I start placarding and reaching out to other banned
> individuals
>
> I think we need to educate people on what is occurring here, build our own
> wikipedias, and do as much as possible to disrupt the Wikimedia Foundation
> and its Collaboration with the Alt-Right Apartheid State
>
> https://etherpad.net/p/Wikimania_Censorship
>
> On 20 July 2018 at 15:59, Michael Graaf <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Dear all,
> >
> > as many people have asked me to share the slides I and others presented
> at
> > Wikimania, and also as I represented Wikimedia-ZA at the Celtic Knot
> > conference, I am sharing the online doc where we workshopped before and
> > right up to the last minute:
> > https://docs.google.com/document/d/1aFY4uxHEHBeBIkoznzO3-
> > TGAY3PI8XPo3Oh6RnVRWhI/edit?usp=sharing
> >
> >
> > I have also cc'd Kirsten whom I met at Wikimania who wishes to join
> > Wikimedia-ZA's email list please.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> >
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