Hello Fae,
The purpose of the guideline is to provide opportunity for community members to guide and provide feedback on the Wikimedia Foundation's advocacy positions. It is our internal guideline, not a binding policy or contract (see the FAQ for the guideline). If you have an issue with the Necessary and Proportionate principles or the WMF taking a stance against mass surveillance, you are welcome to raise it here or on Meta.
Best, Stephen
On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 3:56 AM, Fæ faewik@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Maggie,
The link to the Foundation policy is helpful. The most relevant section appears to be "Collaborative Advocacy". If that is right then what happens is "Advocacy Advisory Group (consultation), RfC (consultation if time permits), and General notice".
Though a link to an email thread of this group has now been given as a remark on the blog post, a general notice and RFC has been skipped, despite this document being available and under discussion for more than six months (so "time permits" applies). I believe the WMF was not successful in complying with its own policy in this case.
Is my reading correct?
Fae
On 15 May 2014 11:48, Maggie Dennis mdennis@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hello, Fae.
If you have not seen it, there is brief discussion, including a
definition
of the group, at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Legal_and_Community_Advocacy/Foundation_Poli...
Regards,
Maggie
On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 6:38 AM, Fæ faewik@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
I have joined this email list as it appears to be used as evidence of Wikimedia community consultation.[1] I certainly was unaware that this list was being used for this purpose, and I am concerned that wider consultation processes may not be attempted.
The only scope for this list I can find is that at https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/advocacy_advisors which says nothing about representation. Could someone point me to better definition?
Links
- Refer to the WMF blog post response by Roshni Patel at
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http://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/05/09/opposing-mass-surveillance-on-the-inter...
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