On 28 January 2011 12:24, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com> wrote:
The Wikimedia movement does not have and should not
have a position on
the current situation in Egypt. While you view your suggestion as us
taking the side of free information, it would be perceived as taking
sides in the more general conflict that is going on, and we can't do
that.
Even then, I don't think there'd be a consensus to do so. e.g. the
Great Firewall of China - our response to that is to just keep doing
what we're doing, writing a neutral encyclopedia and keeping it
available.
The idea of getting samizdat copies of Wikipedia into Egypt appeals.
Airlift in current-article dumps of ar:wp and en:wp on SD cards by the
thousand?
- d.