So now I'm put into the awkward position of having to agree with
essentially everything the post said, and still have to disagree with it
having been made.
The WMF should not be taking political stances without input and consensus
from the community. Period. If it thought it needed to in this case, it
should have made that case, not just plowed ahead.
I think, since the post was made under the name of ED Katherine Maher, we
should see a response to these concerns from her.
Todd
On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 11:48 PM, Bill Takatoshi <billtakatoshi(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
On Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 1:02 AM, Michael Peel
<email(a)mikepeel.net> wrote:
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
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