On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 1:18 AM Gregory Varnum gvarnum@wikimedia.org wrote:
Having said that, we agree with some of the criticisms you have raised. We had understood the Earth Day Live campaign to be both global and apolitical. However, we agree that the final campaign was both more US-centric and more political than we had understood in advance. The banner is no longer running, and in the future we will do more thorough due diligence.
Will that due diligence include advance notice to the community? In this case, the Phabricator task, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T250508, appears to have been opened the same day that the banner was to be deployed, meaning that nobody had any chance to voice concerns before it went live. For banners on the projects, we have < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CentralNotice/Calendar%3E. I am not saying that every change to wikimediafoundation.org needs to be screened in advance, of course, but I think we should avoid keeping "campaign" banners (even those which aren't expected to be controversial) hidden away until the last minute.
Emufarmers