Hello all,
As you are aware, the German community has voted in favor of a blackout of German Wikipedia. The blackout is set to take place on March 21st. We have been working closely with the German community to develop a strategy to best support the implementation of this decision. We are currently fine-tuning the text and design for the blackout to ensure the messaging is clear and accurate.
A number of other communities are in active discussions some of which appear to be expressing consensus in favor of a banner, a blackout, or a combination of the two. We want to ensure materials including, banners and blackouts are easily accessible and adaptable for use on all languages in the com
Those materials we are preparing will be ready in the next few days, but we’d like to take this opportunity to contextualize them by outlining our approach. Our materials aim to do the following:
- *Avoid invoking party politics. - *We want the campaign to be clearly and unequivocally about the Directive text, not about particular parties or candidates. We will also avoid linking to any campaigns that encourage the support or opposition of specific candidates
- *Focus on the issues.* - We will hone in on the particular articles in the Directive that are causing problems with the text, specifically Articles 11 and 13.
- *Contain our own neutral material. *We believe it's imperative to have airtight arguments and intentional framing. While other sites have great initiatives underway, we cannot ensure that external content will remain consistent with our message.
- *Have a uniform call to action.* Where we link to content, we will link to fixcopyright.wikimedia.org, which will when updated direct users to contact their MEPs through the European Parliament's website, We believe concerted action will have more effect than disperse, uncoordinated action between communities.
- *Communicate in a concise, direct and factual style*, so as to avoid confusing our message.
Please distribute this message to your communities as you see fit. We would like the communities voting in favor of an action to know that we are working on the tools and messaging to support their decision.
Feel free to contact myself if you have any questions about the implementation of on wiki community actions.
Many thanks!
Seddon
[1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meinungsbilder/Protest_gegen_EU-Urhe...
Good luck, all. We're cheering for you.
On Fri, Mar 15, 2019, 9:48 PM Joseph Seddon jseddon@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hello all,
As you are aware, the German community has voted in favor of a blackout of German Wikipedia. The blackout is set to take place on March 21st. We have been working closely with the German community to develop a strategy to best support the implementation of this decision. We are currently fine-tuning the text and design for the blackout to ensure the messaging is clear and accurate.
A number of other communities are in active discussions some of which appear to be expressing consensus in favor of a banner, a blackout, or a combination of the two. We want to ensure materials including, banners and blackouts are easily accessible and adaptable for use on all languages in the com
Those materials we are preparing will be ready in the next few days, but we’d like to take this opportunity to contextualize them by outlining our approach. Our materials aim to do the following:
- *Avoid invoking party politics. - *We want the campaign to be clearly
and unequivocally about the Directive text, not about particular parties or candidates. We will also avoid linking to any campaigns that encourage the support or opposition of specific candidates
- *Focus on the issues.* - We will hone in on the particular articles in
the Directive that are causing problems with the text, specifically Articles 11 and 13.
- *Contain our own neutral material. *We believe it's imperative to have
airtight arguments and intentional framing. While other sites have great initiatives underway, we cannot ensure that external content will remain consistent with our message.
- *Have a uniform call to action.* Where we link to content, we will link
to fixcopyright.wikimedia.org, which will when updated direct users to contact their MEPs through the European Parliament's website, We believe concerted action will have more effect than disperse, uncoordinated action between communities.
- *Communicate in a concise, direct and factual style*, so as to avoid
confusing our message.
Please distribute this message to your communities as you see fit. We would like the communities voting in favor of an action to know that we are working on the tools and messaging to support their decision.
Feel free to contact myself if you have any questions about the implementation of on wiki community actions.
Many thanks!
Seddon
[1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meinungsbilder/Protest_gegen_EU-Urhe... _______________________________________________ Publicpolicy mailing list Publicpolicy@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/publicpolicy
If there is anything the pledge2019.eu campaign can do to support your efforts, let me know.
If you need explainer material, we created this animation video for article 13 (cc-by-sa) EN: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyUh9wOp_Rw DE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=651XS0O39bc&t=131s
Best, Thomas
On 16.03.2019, at 05:57, Luis Villa luis@lu.is wrote:
Good luck, all. We're cheering for you.
On Fri, Mar 15, 2019, 9:48 PM Joseph Seddon <jseddon@wikimedia.org mailto:jseddon@wikimedia.org> wrote: Hello all,
As you are aware, the German community has voted in favor of a blackout of German Wikipedia. The blackout is set to take place on March 21st. We have been working closely with the German community to develop a strategy to best support the implementation of this decision. We are currently fine-tuning the text and design for the blackout to ensure the messaging is clear and accurate.
A number of other communities are in active discussions some of which appear to be expressing consensus in favor of a banner, a blackout, or a combination of the two. We want to ensure materials including, banners and blackouts are easily accessible and adaptable for use on all languages in the com
Those materials we are preparing will be ready in the next few days, but we’d like to take this opportunity to contextualize them by outlining our approach. Our materials aim to do the following:
Avoid invoking party politics. - We want the campaign to be clearly and unequivocally about the Directive text, not about particular parties or candidates. We will also avoid linking to any campaigns that encourage the support or opposition of specific candidates
Focus on the issues. - We will hone in on the particular articles in the Directive that are causing problems with the text, specifically Articles 11 and 13.
Contain our own neutral material. We believe it's imperative to have airtight arguments and intentional framing. While other sites have great initiatives underway, we cannot ensure that external content will remain consistent with our message.
Have a uniform call to action. Where we link to content, we will link to fixcopyright.wikimedia.org http://fixcopyright.wikimedia.org/, which will when updated direct users to contact their MEPs through the European Parliament's website, We believe concerted action will have more effect than disperse, uncoordinated action between communities.
Communicate in a concise, direct and factual style, so as to avoid confusing our message.
Please distribute this message to your communities as you see fit. We would like the communities voting in favor of an action to know that we are working on the tools and messaging to support their decision.
Feel free to contact myself if you have any questions about the implementation of on wiki community actions.
Many thanks! Seddon
[1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meinungsbilder/Protest_gegen_EU-Urhe... https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meinungsbilder/Protest_gegen_EU-Urheberrechtsreform _______________________________________________ Publicpolicy mailing list Publicpolicy@lists.wikimedia.org mailto:Publicpolicy@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/publicpolicy https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/publicpolicy _______________________________________________ Publicpolicy mailing list Publicpolicy@lists.wikimedia.org mailto:Publicpolicy@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/publicpolicy https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/publicpolicy
Many thanks for the info Joe
Does anyone have a understanding of what has been discussed on English Wikipedia? I saw a discussion for a regional banner, but haven't seen anything about a blackout. I would be very willing to put some time into plans to do this if anyone is working on something.
Best
On Sat, 16 Mar 2019 at 14:03, Thomas Lohninger < thomas.lohninger@netzfreiheit.org> wrote:
If there is anything the pledge2019.eu campaign can do to support your efforts, let me know.
If you need explainer material, we created this animation video for article 13 (cc-by-sa) EN: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyUh9wOp_Rw DE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=651XS0O39bc&t=131s
Best, Thomas
On 16.03.2019, at 05:57, Luis Villa luis@lu.is wrote:
Good luck, all. We're cheering for you.
On Fri, Mar 15, 2019, 9:48 PM Joseph Seddon jseddon@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hello all,
As you are aware, the German community has voted in favor of a blackout of German Wikipedia. The blackout is set to take place on March 21st. We have been working closely with the German community to develop a strategy to best support the implementation of this decision. We are currently fine-tuning the text and design for the blackout to ensure the messaging is clear and accurate.
A number of other communities are in active discussions some of which appear to be expressing consensus in favor of a banner, a blackout, or a combination of the two. We want to ensure materials including, banners and blackouts are easily accessible and adaptable for use on all languages in the com
Those materials we are preparing will be ready in the next few days, but we’d like to take this opportunity to contextualize them by outlining our approach. Our materials aim to do the following:
- *Avoid invoking party politics. - *We want the campaign to be clearly
and unequivocally about the Directive text, not about particular parties or candidates. We will also avoid linking to any campaigns that encourage the support or opposition of specific candidates
- *Focus on the issues.* - We will hone in on the particular articles in
the Directive that are causing problems with the text, specifically Articles 11 and 13.
- *Contain our own neutral material. *We believe it's imperative to have
airtight arguments and intentional framing. While other sites have great initiatives underway, we cannot ensure that external content will remain consistent with our message.
- *Have a uniform call to action.* Where we link to content, we will
link to fixcopyright.wikimedia.org, which will when updated direct users to contact their MEPs through the European Parliament's website, We believe concerted action will have more effect than disperse, uncoordinated action between communities.
- *Communicate in a concise, direct and factual style*, so as to avoid
confusing our message.
Please distribute this message to your communities as you see fit. We would like the communities voting in favor of an action to know that we are working on the tools and messaging to support their decision.
Feel free to contact myself if you have any questions about the implementation of on wiki community actions.
Many thanks! Seddon
[1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meinungsbilder/Protest_gegen_EU-Urhe... _______________________________________________ Publicpolicy mailing list Publicpolicy@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/publicpolicy
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