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On Thu, 9 May 2019, 3:57 pm Pine W, <wiki.pine(a)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.
Pine
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https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine
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