I have just read through the long thread of replies and I am appalled that
Romaine was asked to "step down" for safety concerns of an individual (or
several individuals?) arising from his standing too close or speaking too
loud or whatever. Is THIS really a behaviour that can put someone at risk?
And if a risk has been identified out of such, may we please be informed by
the SuSa team not of the details, but at least of the supposed risk?
Romaine is the first person I ever met at my first Wikimania (Mexico City)
and he is always on his feet all day doing a million different things to
facilitate the event. He is sweet, helpful, with a great sense of humour
and I can't imagine that anyone who has been to so much as a single
Wikimania would think otherwise. So, very plainly and openly, as we are
accustomed in the open movement we so passionately follow, may we please
have an explanation as to which "friendly space" code of conduct he has
breached to deserve being asked to step down? And on top of that, being
further stressed by the criticism that he has been e in ths thread? The
only GOOD thing that I see as possibly resulting from this discussion was
what Florence (if I recall correctly) suggested: a sticker indicating which
people are offended by loud speaking and close proximity, so that,this
doesn't happen again (a sticker which I will most certainly NOT be sporting
on my badge)
Romaine, a big THANK YOU for all that you do for Wikimanias. I always look
forward to "brushing shoulders" with you. A big warm hug from your Greek
friend :)
Mina
On Fri, 20 Jul 2018, 18:21 Federico Leva (Nemo), <nemowiki(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Devouard (gmail), 20/07/2018 12:18:
So, I am thinking that... whilst some of us put
little stickers on our
badges to indicate we do not want to be taken in picture, perhaps we
need to consider also little stickers to put on our badges to indicate
that we prefer "a certain physical distance" and warn others that we may
be sensitive to closeness so they be aware it might be an issue ?
+1, this is a suggestion worth exploring (is there a feedback page
already on the wiki, where to add it?).
If you see a "fi-N" on someone's badge you may remember the advice
"Never hug, kiss or touch a Finn"
<http://www.ediplomat.com/np/cultural_etiquette/ce_fi.htm>, but not
everybody may be expected to walk around with a cultural etiquette
matrix for 200 cultures.
(At Wikimania I usually also wear Wikiquote and sister project stickers
and pins so that people are warned that, if they use language which
assumes "Wikipedia" or "English [Wikipedia]" or other discriminations
of
some projects, I will definitely take offense and object to it.)
Federico
_______________________________________________
Wikimania-l mailing list
Wikimania-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l