Happy Brithday Wikimedia!
What a great gift to celebrate!
Welcome back Turkey and here’s to another 19 years of free knowledge
available in every corner of the world.
RhinosF1
Volunteer
On Thu, 16 Jan 2020 at 19:49, Rajeeb Dutta <marajozkee(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks Amanda for sharing this wonderful news, looking
forward to
collaborate and work with Turkish Community.
All my best wishes.
Best regards,
Rajeeb.
(U:Marajozkee)
On Fri, 17 Jan 2020 at 01:12, John Erling Blad <jeblad(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Seems like the site is throttled or even
redirected to a taerpit.
Anyone inside Turkey that can run a trace?
On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 7:21 PM Amanda Keton <aketon(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
Hi everyone,
My name is Amanda Keton, the new General Counsel at the Wikimedia
Foundation. While Katherine is inflight traveling back from a busy week
of
> community meetings in Chile, I wanted to share the exciting news that
> today, we have started to receive reports that the block of Wikipedia
in
Turkey is
being lifted, data which is also indicated by our internal
traffic reports. After more than two and a half years, access to
Wikipedia
> has been restored in Turkey - and on a timely occasion, as we celebrate
> Wikipedia’s 19th birthday today!
>
> Please join me in welcoming back our friends and colleagues from
Turkey.
While
many have remained active during the block, restoring access to
Wikipedia will allow thousands more to return in the days and weeks
ahead.
> It is our shared responsibility and honor to help make them feel
welcome
again and
make sure they know how much we missed them. I am confident
that
> our community will successfully welcome them back with open arms. I
know
we
> have community members around the world who have been eagerly looking
> forward to the block being lifted and brainstorming activities to
> celebrate, and I welcome them to share their ideas as we move forward.
>
> Our case in the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) is also still
> pending, and remains important even in light of the unblock as a way to
> continue advocating for strong protections for free expression online.
We
> will continue to post updates about the next
steps in our case before
the
ECHR on
the Wikimedia Foundation website. We have also published a
statement to reflect that access has now been restored in Turkey. [1]
Thank you all for your efforts, kind words, and encouraging thoughts as
we
worked to restore access to Wikipedia in Turkey.
I want to thank our
Turkish community, in particular, for their patience, resolution, and
continued participation in the movement during the more than two and a
half
> years Wikipedia was inaccessible. This was a prolonged global effort,
on
behalf of
free knowledge everywhere.
Of course, there are other blocks around the world still in place, and
our
> efforts in addressing this type of censorship of knowledge is far from
> over. That said, I hope all of you will celebrate this momentous
> accomplishment for free knowledge today and join me in welcoming back
the
people of
Turkey to our projects, movement, and community.
With gratitude,
Amanda
[1]
https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2020/01/16/access-to-wikipedia-restore…
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>
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