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On Thu, 9 May 2019, 3:57 pm Pine W, wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote:
The mailing list description says that the permitted types of announcements are for "new versions, bug fixes, and security issues." Advertising of commercial services is not included. Granted, the description does not explicitly prohibit advertising. The absence of an explicit prohibition is not sufficient for me to conclude that advertising a commercial hosting service is OK to do. I think that permitting advertising is a bad idea 1. with Wikimedia Foundation resources which are paid for by donors who are told that their money will be used to support Wikipedia and its volunteers, and 2. on a list that is used largely for technical communications. The weighing of the factors that I have reviewed leads me to conclude that advertising is prohibited here under current policy.
I am willing to ask WMF Legal for its opinion regarding the use of Wikimedia Foundation mailing lists for advertising commercial hosting services, but even if WMF Legal thinks that this is OK in terms of the letter of the law, I don't think that it's consistent with the intentions of donors or my understanding of the Wikimedia Foundation brand.
I am willing to make a formal proposal to add an explicit prohibition against advertising on this list.
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