On Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 1:02 AM, Michael Peel email@mikepeel.net wrote:
Have you seen Katherine's statement at: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/01/30/knowledge-knows-no-boundaries/
That statement is well worth reading. It says,
"we believe in a world that encourages and protects the open exchange of ideas and information, community and culture; where people of every country, language, and culture can freely collaborate without restriction"
"we will continue to stand up for our values of open discourse"
+1
The charter of this mailing list says "potential new Wikimedia projects and initiatives" are on topic here. There are no exceptions given.
If some participants want to restrict what other participants can say because their ideas are political, or don't conform closely enough to what Wikimedia is already doing, or are repetitive, or annoying, or opposed to somebody else's politics, then a new mailing list should be created, Wikimedia-l-restricted, where the forbidden topics can be specified clearly and without ambiguity, and all of the people who want to restrict what other people can say can enjoy restricting each other.
Good luck with that.
The complaints about messages complaining about recent political events FAR MORE ANNOYING AND FAR MORE INAPPROPRIATE than the complaints about recent political events.
-Will