I have been waiting for more than three years for the WMF to settle the question (below) of whether our long-term editor community supports political activism, and if so, what sort, by surveying the opinions of established editors. I was promised that the WMF would include such questions in their regular annual surveys, but those have apparently been discontinued entirely. Why?
I agree with and commend the Foundation for strongly supporting the Earth Day Live event along with KDE and Imgur. Climate action and campaign finance reform is certainly not opposed by any more than a tiny, sub-5% fraction of the long-term editor base, and I question whether the vocal minority on this list opposed to the WMF taking such a firm position actually want more fossil fuel production and more political financial corruption, or if the outrage stems instead because political parties have also taken stands on those issues? Are we going to allow the platforms of the political parties govern what we consider acceptable from the Foundation?
In any case, do we all agree that the ability to travel internationally is still fundamentally essential to the continued operation of the Foundation and its servers, personnel, hiring, and ability to protect its employees and editors from government abuses?
US State Department Halts Passport Issuing Amid Coronavirus Pandemic https://www.reddit.com/r/MarchAgainstNazis/comments/g7yrb7/us_state_departme...
Stephen Miller indicates immigration pause will be long term: report https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/494572-stephen-miller-indicates-...
That is what we should be running banners and threatening blackouts about.
-Will
The people who are loudest in their demands for consensus do not represent the Wikimedia movement.
The voices loudest for the WMF doing something against the Trump administration are not representative of the Wikimedia movement either....
Is the Community Process Steering Committee currently prepared to "engage more 'quiet' members of our community" with a statistically robust snap survey to resolve this question?
Anyone can go to Recent Changes and send a SurveyMonkey link to the most recent few hundred editors with contributions at least a year old, to get an accurate answer.
Will a respected member of the community please do this? I would like to know what the actual editing community thinks of the travel ban and their idea of an appropriate response. I don't want to see community governance by opt-in participation in obscure RFCs.
I would offer to do this myself, but I value keeping my real name unassociated with my enwiki userid.
-Will