Dear friends,
This email is very Wikimedia specific. I come to you with a request that I think many of you will have an interest in.
My colleague at WMF, Chuck Roslof, is leading an initiative to review policies and practices related to when project banners are run or temporary logo changes are made...particularly when these actions touch on public policy issues.
Since this group encompasses some of the most politically active Wikimedians, I know many of you have firsthand experience running campaigns where you either considered, or decided, to run banners on projects. Examples that come to mind are the 2017 Italian Wikipedia sitenotice for Response [1] to the 2017 ban in Turkey [2], as well as the European Parliament vote in 2018 that triggered shutdowns of Wikipedias and some sister projects in multiple languages [3]. In 2019 a series of banners and shutdowns took place for the same reasons [4]. You can read more about this effort on Meta-Wiki [5].
Do you have campaign examples to share where you ran a banner or changed a logo? On the Meta-Wiki you can see the examples we have already collected. Help us fill the gaps, either by adding examples directly or email it to croslof@wikimedia.org.
Thanks, Ziski __ [1] https://it.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Sitenotice&oldid=87... [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Response_to_2017_ban_in_Turkey [3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/European_Parliament_vote_in_2018 [4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/EU_policy/Copyright_2019 [5] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation/Legal/Update_to_banner_...