Hi,<div><br></div><div>If you haven't read Amanda Hess's piece at <a href="http://www.psmag.com/navigation/health-and-behavior/women-arent-welcome-internet-72170/">http://www.psmag.com/navigation/health-and-behavior/women-arent-welcome-internet-72170/</a> , it is well worth reading. In it, she makes a very compelling case that the EFF's position on privacy is problematic in terms of protecting potential abusers private information and in effect enabling abuse. There needs to be a really good exploration of the relationship between the EFF and the WMF in terms of advocacy going forward because of this issue. With a goal of the WMF to increase user participation, aligning with an organization that protects the privacy abusers may not be one of the best stategic prioritities. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Sincerely,</div><div>Laura Hale</div><div><br></div><div><br><br>On Thursday, February 27, 2014, Yana Welinder <<a href="mailto:ywelinder@wikimedia.org">ywelinder@wikimedia.org</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr">Hi Dimi, <div><br></div><div>Stephen and I wrote a guest post for EFF about the importance of the public domain for Wikipedia last month: <a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/01/wikipedia-shows-value-vibrant-public-domain" target="_blank">https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/01/wikipedia-shows-value-vibrant-public-domain</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>You may want to reuse some of that discussion to expand on the section on the social value of the public domain and open licenses. I think that concrete examples would help make that section more persuasive. </div>
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