The non-discrimination policy [1] says:
"The Wikimedia Foundation prohibits discrimination against current or prospective users and employees..."
I'm not sure what was intended by "users", but I suppose it might be interpreted to include editors, admins, etc.
-Robert Rohde
[1] http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Non_discrimination_policy
On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 6:24 AM, mbimmler@gmail.com wrote:
IANAL but I doubt it. Such norms, on whatever level tend to focus only on formal employment and access to services aimed at the general public. You're free to cast votes on politicians (and board members, for that matter) based on solely religious (or gender or whatever) grounds. I consider rfas rather analogous, with regards to individual cast votes. If the entire community turns strictly anti-Semitic or anti-LGBT or pro-White or whatever, or if a bureaucrat closes votes on such grounds, that's something else.
Michael
On 9/26/08, Joe Szilagyi szilagyi@gmail.com wrote:
This is probably a tempest in a teapot, but it seemed like an interesting question. On a local "request for adminship" on English Wikipedia, an editor has stated he will not support anyone who is not Christian for Adminship, and the RFA in question is getting very intense. Would people opposing actions or volunteer positions based on religion, creed, race, or sexuality of a user run afoul of any local United States discrimination laws, or local San Francisco, California ones, where the WMF is housed?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Inciden...
And the section immediately above it.
- Joe
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