On Aug 2, 2012, at 5:45 PM, Andreas Kolbe
<jayen466(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 12:11 PM, MZMcBride
<z(a)mzmcbride.com> wrote:
What type of action was the SOPA blackout in
January?
You mean, given the $500,000 Google donation Wikimedia received in November
2011, one month after the Italian Wikipedia's blackout, and two months
before the English Wikipedia's SOPA blackout, and round about the time
Wikimedia first made public statements denouncing SOPA?
Good question.
This is inserting a conspiracy theory where one does not exist.
The English Wikipedia community voted on the blackout and directed it into
existence, not the Foundation. We merely facilitated.
To be clear, my question isn't about Google or donations or anything like
that. My question, more directly, is: if the SOPA action from January 2012
were held in August 2012 (following the implementation of this new statement
from the General Counsel's office), would it be considered a "community
initiative" or not?
Given that this statement was written as a response to the January 2012 SOPA
blackout, it seems like a reasonable question. Philippe and others have
indicated that such actions would _not_ fall under this new doctrine. Is
this correct?
The line between what constitutes a community initiative and what's
considered a request from an outside group still isn't clear to me,
especially when I consider the Wikimedia Foundation to view the entire
Wikimedia editing community as an outside group some days.
MZMcBride