No sufficient consensus on Dutch Wikipedia either, there seem to be some users that are in favor of the articles, and that are wholly unconvinced that this would be bad for our mission. https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:De_kroeg#Duitse_Wikipedia_op_zwart

Best, Lodewijk

On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 2:20 PM Paulo Santos Perneta < paulosperneta@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Seddon,

Unfortunately despite some support, there is no consensus at the Wikipedia in Portuguese to do anything ATM: https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Esplanada/geral/A_Internet_livr...)

I've an idea of what caused this reaction by community, we can talk about that sometime, if there is any interest.

Anyway, I'm quite glad other Wikipedias will be actively engaged on this fight.

Regards, Paulo

Joseph Seddon jseddon@wikimedia.org escreveu no dia quarta, 20/03/2019 à(s) 21:03:

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Hello everyone,

As you’ve likely heard, four language Wikipedias will black out tomorrow, March 21, in opposition to the current version of the EU Copyright Directive. [1] The Czech, Danish, German and Slovak Wikipedias will display a non-dismissible blackout overlay and block access to content for 24 hours. These communities will be utilizing similar texts and designs for their blackouts. [2][3][4][5]

In addition to these communities, there are others discussing the possibility of a banner and/or a blackout. Discussions and voting appear to be actively occurring on Estonian, French and Italian Wikipedias whilst other community conversations have either stalled or gone quiet.

The final vote on the Directive is expected to take place on Tuesday, March 26. This means that communities looking to make an impact on the outcome of the vote will need to make decisions surrounding community actions, by the latest, the evening of Sunday March 24.

There is a good deal of coordination and technical work that goes into these initiatives. In order for us to best support communities in the implementation of their decision, we want to encourage interested communities to come to a decision, whether for or against, and reach out to us as soon as possible.

Thanks,

Seddon

[1] https://wikimediafoundation.org/2019/03/20/four-wikipedias-to-black-out-over...

[2] Czech/Danish blackout: https://cs.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=NASA&banner=EU_Blackout_2019&...

[3] Czech banner: https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Trademark/Request_a_license_for...

[4] German blackout: https://de.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=NASA&banner=EU_Blackout_201... [5] Slovak blackout: https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fundraising_2011/Jimmy_Letter_0...

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Hello everyone

We've published a blog post today to explain how communities decide whether or not (and how) to take action around policy proposals such as the new EU copyright directive: https://wikimediafoundation.org/2019/03/20/four-wikipedias-to-black-out-over... In the post, we also explain the Wikimedia Foundation's role and how we support community decisions.

Cheers, Jan

On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 2:23 PM Jan Weisensee jan.weisensee@posteo.de wrote:

Dear Joseph, all,

Thank you for this update and all the work of communities going into this. A blackout or banner in France would be particularly impactful.

All the best, Jan

Am 20. März 2019 22:02:31 MEZ schrieb Joseph Seddon <jseddon@wikimedia.org

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Hello everyone,

As you’ve likely heard, four language Wikipedias will black out tomorrow, March 21, in opposition to the current version of the EU Copyright Directive. [1] The Czech, Danish, German and Slovak Wikipedias will display a non-dismissible blackout overlay and block access to content for 24 hours. These communities will be utilizing similar texts and designs for their blackouts. [2][3][4][5]

In addition to these communities, there are others discussing the possibility of a banner and/or a blackout. Discussions and voting appear to be actively occurring on Estonian, French and Italian Wikipedias whilst other community conversations have either stalled or gone quiet.

The final vote on the Directive is expected to take place on Tuesday, March 26. This means that communities looking to make an impact on the outcome of the vote will need to make decisions surrounding community actions, by the latest, the evening of Sunday March 24.

There is a good deal of coordination and technical work that goes into these initiatives. In order for us to best support communities in the implementation of their decision, we want to encourage interested communities to come to a decision, whether for or against, and reach out to us as soon as possible.

Thanks,

Seddon

[1] https://wikimediafoundation.org/2019/03/20/four-wikipedias-to-black-out-over...

[2] Czech/Danish blackout: https://cs.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=NASA&banner=EU_Blackout_2019&...

[3] Czech banner: https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Trademark/Request_a_license_for...

[4] German blackout: https://de.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=NASA&banner=EU_Blackout_201... [5] Slovak blackout: https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fundraising_2011/Jimmy_Letter_0...

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