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Zachary McCune

5 Mar 2018 5 Mar '18

7:44 p.m.

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From March 5-12, we will be reminding the world about the Turkish block of

Wikipedia. We will communicate primarily on Twitter and Facebook- networks where advocates for Wikipedia can increase the reach of messages about the block. On Twitter, we will share a series of tweets about Turkish culture, history, sports, etc. from @Wikipedia . We’ll also be sharing messages that express sadness for missing the perspectives of Turkish people on our projects, and our hopes that access to Wikipedia will be restored in Turkey. On Facebook, we have developed a "photo frame" users can add to their profile picture to show support for Wikipedia in Turkey. In addition to posting messages, we will also be sharing some posters from Turkish artists which help visualize the culture and knowledge we are missing. The posters will be released throughout the week and available for you to utilize. We invite you to develop posters or graphics of your own. We hope that affiliates and volunteers around the world will join us! You can get involved in a number of ways, including by creating, sharing, and retweeting messages, sharing our posters and creating your own, and more! More details on how to get involved are on the Meta-Wiki campaign page: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communications/WeMissTurkey == On tone == The messages for this campaign are being directed to the people of Turkey, and have a positive message and tone. We do not want to use this campaign to directly confront authorities in Turkey. We are asking that others managing Wikimedia social media accounts join us, and be respectful of the positive goal and message. This messaging approach for the campaign is part of a broader, ongoing strategy from the Wikimedia Foundation to lift the block of Wikipedia in Turkey. If you have any questions, let us know! Zack & the Comms team -- Zachary McCune Global Audiences Wikimedia Foundation zmccune(a)wikimedia.org

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mathieu stumpf guntz

6 Mar 6 Mar

7:50 a.m.

Hello Zachary, First, thank you and all people involved for this great initiative. There are two points for which I would be happy to have more information about. The first one is about the state of censorship in Turkey, not only regarding each Wikimedia project, but also for the communication canal intended to diffuse this campaign, namely Facebook and Twitter. Are they free of any censorship from the Turkish government? Also, although I guess this was already taken into account, is there some some communication platform particularly praised among Turkish people outside this two platform? The second is more broad, on the Wikimedia effort regarding censorship. There are some resources I easily found [1][2][3], but nothing as an official up-to-date comprehensive overview of the state of censorship affecting Wikimedia projects in the world. Something like a page including a world map showing various degree of censorship and a description of how and why it's in place, as well as Wikimedia initiatives aiming at making cease this kind of practices. Thank you again for this initiative, and thank you in advance for any feedback on this points. [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Censorship [2] https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Notices_received_from_search_engines [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_of_Wikipedia Le 05/03/2018 à 20:44, Zachary McCune a écrit :

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Hi everyone, For the last 10 months, several teams within the Wikimedia Foundation have been working with the local Turkish community to lift the block of Wikipedia in Turkey. Today, we have launched a social media campaign designed to help raise international awareness of the block and send a positive message to our friends in Turkey. We are asking individual volunteers, affiliates, and anyone else who would like to participate to join us in one of several ways. More details are below and on Meta-Wiki: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ wiki/Communications/WeMissTurkey The campaign, based around the hashtag #WeMissTurkey, is an opportunity for all of us to tell our friends in Turkey that we miss them and help inform the world what impact their absence is having. == An overview of the #WeMissTurkey campaign == From March 5-12, we will be reminding the world about the Turkish block of Wikipedia. We will communicate primarily on Twitter and Facebook- networks where advocates for Wikipedia can increase the reach of messages about the block. On Twitter, we will share a series of tweets about Turkish culture, history, sports, etc. from @Wikipedia . We’ll also be sharing messages that express sadness for missing the perspectives of Turkish people on our projects, and our hopes that access to Wikipedia will be restored in Turkey. On Facebook, we have developed a "photo frame" users can add to their profile picture to show support for Wikipedia in Turkey. In addition to posting messages, we will also be sharing some posters from Turkish artists which help visualize the culture and knowledge we are missing. The posters will be released throughout the week and available for you to utilize. We invite you to develop posters or graphics of your own. We hope that affiliates and volunteers around the world will join us! You can get involved in a number of ways, including by creating, sharing, and retweeting messages, sharing our posters and creating your own, and more! More details on how to get involved are on the Meta-Wiki campaign page: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communications/WeMissTurkey == On tone == The messages for this campaign are being directed to the people of Turkey, and have a positive message and tone. We do not want to use this campaign to directly confront authorities in Turkey. We are asking that others managing Wikimedia social media accounts join us, and be respectful of the positive goal and message. This messaging approach for the campaign is part of a broader, ongoing strategy from the Wikimedia Foundation to lift the block of Wikipedia in Turkey. If you have any questions, let us know! Zack & the Comms team

Isaac Olatunde

7:56 a.m.

AFAIK, both Twitter and Facebook are banned by the Turkish government. Regards, Isaac On Mar 6, 2018 8:50 AM, "mathieu stumpf guntz" < psychoslave(a)culture-libre.org> wrote:

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Hello Zachary, First, thank you and all people involved for this great initiative. There are two points for which I would be happy to have more information about. The first one is about the state of censorship in Turkey, not only regarding each Wikimedia project, but also for the communication canal intended to diffuse this campaign, namely Facebook and Twitter. Are they free of any censorship from the Turkish government? Also, although I guess this was already taken into account, is there some some communication platform particularly praised among Turkish people outside this two platform? The second is more broad, on the Wikimedia effort regarding censorship. There are some resources I easily found [1][2][3], but nothing as an official up-to-date comprehensive overview of the state of censorship affecting Wikimedia projects in the world. Something like a page including a world map showing various degree of censorship and a description of how and why it's in place, as well as Wikimedia initiatives aiming at making cease this kind of practices. Thank you again for this initiative, and thank you in advance for any feedback on this points. [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Censorship [2] https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Notices_received_from_ search_engines [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_of_Wikipedia Le 05/03/2018 à 20:44, Zachary McCune a écrit :

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Gerard Meijssen

11:47 a.m.

Hoi, One proposal is that we add data and text about Turkey and its Ottoman Empire past. There is much information that is missing or needs expansion, at that a hat tip to the Catalan Wikipedia.. They are really good in what they report. I will add data information in Wikidata. In the past I added information for the Sultans, quite often about their wives and mothers (who were among the power brokers at the time). There is much data to add; one of them are the governors of the elayets. I would really welcome maps that show how the Ottoman Empire changed over time.. The technology needed is something we could also use of other countries. Just to consider, the Ottoman empire has a similar relevance to many other countries, arguably there is at least as much to say as there is for Germany, France or Britain. Thanks, GerardM PS I will also add information depending on the time and my location. On 5 March 2018 at 20:44, Zachary McCune <zmccune(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:

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Zachary McCune

7 Mar 7 Mar

12:43 a.m.

Hi Mathieu - Wanted to share a quick response to your questions. At present, neither Facebook nor Twitter are currently blocked within Turkey. That does not mean that those platforms do not have (many) takedown requests from Turkish authorities, but it does mean the platforms are active and popular [1][2]. In our planning for this campaign, we've also noted that YouTube and Instagram are popular sites for Turkish internet users and may become more active parts of this campaign. In fact, the Foundation's social media team has just shared the first Turkish artist-made "We Miss Turkey" poster on the @Wikipedia instagram account [3]. On the second point, I am not aware of any efforts to currently update the documentation of censorship you've linked. It would be great to better map and evaluate these blocks, as you describe. - Zack [1] Content removal requests from Twitter - https://transparency.twitter.com/en/removal-requests.html [2] e.g. https://www.statista.com/statistics/570098/distribution-of-social-media-use… [3] https://www.instagram.com/p/Bf_2JXQHgEa/ On Tue, Mar 6, 2018 at 3:47 AM, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com> wrote:

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Hi everyone, For the last 10 months, several teams within the Wikimedia Foundation

have

been working with the local Turkish community to lift the block of Wikipedia in Turkey. Today, we have launched a social media campaign designed to help raise international awareness of the block and send a positive message to our friends in Turkey. We are asking individual volunteers, affiliates, and anyone else who would like to participate to join us in one of several ways. More details are below and on Meta-Wiki: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ wiki/Communications/WeMissTurkey The campaign, based around the hashtag #WeMissTurkey, is an opportunity

for

all of us to tell our friends in Turkey that we miss them and help inform the world what impact their absence is having. == An overview of the #WeMissTurkey campaign == From March 5-12, we will be reminding the world about the Turkish block

Wikipedia. We will communicate primarily on Twitter and Facebook-

networks

where advocates for Wikipedia can increase the reach of messages about

the

block. On Twitter, we will share a series of tweets about Turkish culture, history, sports, etc. from @Wikipedia . We’ll also be sharing messages

that

express sadness for missing the perspectives of Turkish people on our projects, and our hopes that access to Wikipedia will be restored in Turkey. On Facebook, we have developed a "photo frame" users can add to their profile picture to show support for Wikipedia in Turkey. In addition to posting messages, we will also be sharing some posters

from

Turkish artists which help visualize the culture and knowledge we are missing. The posters will be released throughout the week and available

for

you to utilize. We invite you to develop posters or graphics of your own. We hope that affiliates and volunteers around the world will join us! You can get involved in a number of ways, including by creating, sharing, and retweeting messages, sharing our posters and creating your own, and more! More details on how to get involved are on the Meta-Wiki campaign page: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communications/WeMissTurkey == On tone == The messages for this campaign are being directed to the people of

Turkey,

and have a positive message and tone. We do not want to use this campaign to directly confront authorities in Turkey. We are asking that others managing Wikimedia social media accounts join us, and be respectful of

the

positive goal and message. This messaging approach for the campaign is

part

of a broader, ongoing strategy from the Wikimedia Foundation to lift the block of Wikipedia in Turkey. If you have any questions, let us know! Zack & the Comms team -- Zachary McCune Global Audiences Wikimedia Foundation zmccune(a)wikimedia.org _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>

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