Well, there were speakers who were not able to attend Wikimanias in Haifa and Cairo, to start with, because of similar bans, and the general response then was "Whatever place we choose, someone is always discriminated". I am not sure whether this is a healthy attitude or not, but I do not see why the US travel ban leads to a statement whereas existing bans say in Arab world, or Armenia-Azerbaijan or whatever do not.
Cheers Yaroslav
On Fri, Feb 3, 2017 at 1:08 PM, Andy Mabbett andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote:
On 3 February 2017 at 00:00, MZMcBride z@mzmcbride.com wrote:
I guess this is referring to https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/01/30/knowledge-knows-no-boundaries/.
There were speakers and delegates at Wikimania 2012, in Washington DC, who would not have been able to attend under the current ban.
I therefore have no problem with the WMF speaking out against such a ban; indeed I applaud them for doing so.
-- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
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