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On 23/02/2008, Florence Devouard wrote:
It should not matter what the political advocacy
of our
governments are.
It should not matter where we come from. It
should not
matter whether we
are gays, or muslims, or newyorkers.
As far as I know, where we come from, our sexual orientation or our
religion doesn't matter to us. Wikimedia has no restrictions on who
can edit based on any group that they belong to. There hasn't been any
suggestion that this should or will change.
The concern is that there are places in the world which, due to the
national government it falls under, care about where we come from, our
sexual orientation or our religion (or lack thereof).
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Oldak Quill (oldakquill(a)gmail.com)
This was not my point at all.
A previous editor made it a point to oppose US (wikipedians) to Egypt,
insisting that Egypt government did not share our values, and giving it
as an argument for wikimania not to be held in Egypt.
I am not convinced at all China government shares our values.
I am not convinced either France government shares our values.
I am not even convinced the USA government shares our values.
If we start giving as arguments for not going somewhere, the fact the
government does not share our values, then we will not ever go somewhere.
I can perfectly realize that some countries are not as respectful than
others about differences between people. That does not mean I think we
should accept divisions of groups of people per countries within our
community.
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