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Invitation to organize Wiki Loves Love 2019 + to  translate
(Romaine Wiki)
Re: Blocks which appear to demonstrate prejudice against
minorities (Vi to)
Wikimedia+Education Conference registration is now        open
(Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga)

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From: Romaine Wiki romaine.wiki@gmail.com
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Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2019 11:57:55 +0100
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Invitation to organize Wiki Loves Love 2019 + to
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*Wiki Loves Love
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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Lov...
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(WLL) is an International photography competition of Wikimedia Commons
happening in the month of February 2019 to document love testimonials.
The primary goal of the competition is to document love testimonials
through human cultural diversity such as monuments, ceremonies, snapshot
of
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tender gesture, happenings like Valentine's Day, and miscellaneous objects
used as symbol of love; to illustrate articles in the worldwide free
encyclopedia Wikipedia, and other Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) projects.
February is around the corner and Wiki Loves Love team invites you to
organize and promote WLL19 in your country and join hands with us to
celebrate love and document it on Wikimedia Commons. The theme of 2019
is *Festivals,
ceremonies and celebrations of love*.
To organize Wiki Loves Love in your region, sign up at WLL Organizers
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Love_2019/Organise
page. You can also simply support and spread love by helping us translate
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the Commons page in your local language which is open for translation
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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Love_2019/Translations
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The contest runs from 1-28 February 2019. Independent from if there is a
local contest organised in your country, you can help by making the photo
contest Wiki Loves Love more accessible and available to more people in
the
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world by translating the upload wizard, templates and pages to your local
language. See for an overview of templates/pages to be translated at
our Translations
page
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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Love_2019/Translations
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Imagine...The sum of all love!
Wiki Loves Love team
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From: Vi to vituzzu.wiki@gmail.com
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Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2019 12:03:44 +0100
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Blocks which appear to demonstrate prejudice
against minorities
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The lobby of high voltage warning signs disagrees.
Vito
Il giorno lun 7 gen 2019 alle ore 11:37 Yaroslav Blanter <ymbalt@gmail.com
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Well, in 2019 people should already have come to the notion that
blocking
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locally an acting steward is not really a good idea.
Cheers
Yaroslav
On Mon, Jan 7, 2019 at 11:21 AM Vi to vituzzu.wiki@gmail.com wrote:
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Because of a truly great idea
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the involved user's admin/bureaucrat access was revoked
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by Marco Aurelio.
Vito
Il giorno lun 7 gen 2019 alle ore 11:02 Amir Sarabadani <
ladsgroup@gmail.com>
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Given the response on the talk page [1] I think it's clear
violation of
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nondiscrimination policy [2]
[1] "promotion of homosexuality will not be tolerated here nor will
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be
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forced down our throats to suit anyone's international political
agenda
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if
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you expect Ethiopians to take part."
[2]
https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Resolution:Nondiscrimination
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Best
On Wed, Jan 2, 2019, 23:09 Risker risker.wp@gmail.com wrote:
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I note that we are talking about the block of one single user on
one
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single project; this particular account has thousands of edits
over
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about a
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dozen projects, but is "attached" to hundreds of Wikimedia
projects.
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The
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majority of these "attached" accounts are likely because the
editor
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"visited" the various projects while logged in, activating the
automatic
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account creation algorithm.  The account was created 8 years ago,
and
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has
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actively edited a wide variety of  projects, including several
wikipedias,
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Commons, Wikidata, and Meta. While English Wikipedia is the
account's
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"home" wiki, about 55% of the account's global edits have been
made
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on
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Marathi Wikipedia. The Amharic Wikipedia account does not appear
to
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have
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edited, which suggests that it was automatically created when the
editor
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was "looking at" the project on 9  February 2018.  The block for
account
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name was made on 22 October 2018.  I note that accounts were
created
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on
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over a hundred projects over the course of a few days in February

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The point being raised in this thread is that it appears this
editor
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was
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blocked on one of the 381 wikis on which they have an account,
explicitly
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because of the perception that their username calls attention to
the
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sexual
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behaviour of the editor. What we do not know is (a) whether that
is
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in
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fact
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a legitimate username block reason on Amharic Wikipedia, or (b)
if it
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is
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a
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legitimate username block reason, *why* it would be a username
block
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reason. We don't know why this block was applied so long after the
account
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was created. We don't know the username policy on Amharic
Wikipedia,
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nor
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do
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we know how it is applied; for example, we don't know if a
username
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like
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"StraightGuy101" would be blocked.  We do know that there are
only 4
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administrators on Amharic Wikipedia, and that there are fewer
than 50
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active users working on the project, which may be part of the
reason
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for
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the delay between automatic account creation and the account
block.
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We also know that one of the challenges of single user login for
all
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Wikimedia projects has highlighted the fact that certain usernames
that
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are
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acceptable on some projects are blocked on other projects; we've
known
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that
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for years. We know that each project establishes its own policies
when
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it
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comes to usernames. There are legitimate reasons why a username
that
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is
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acceptable in one language is not acceptable in another language,
even
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in
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cases where the editor had no knowledge that the chosen username
would
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be a
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problem in another language. We do know that there have been lots
of
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cases
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where usernames have been blocked for "username policy violation"
on
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all
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kinds of projects, despite the account operating productively on
other
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projects.
I also note that there is nothing in this thread that confirms the
editor
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themself has raised any concerns about this block, and I am always
wary
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of
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turning an editor into a "martyr for a cause" without their direct
agreement, as that can be as abusive as the original action. So
the
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first
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step in this situation would be to confirm with the individual
editor
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whether or not they want their "case" to be examined.
Should the editor be agreeable, I suggest that the next step is
for
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someone
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who has the ability to converse in Amharic to contact the Amharic
Wikipedia
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and find out why the block has been issued, how it is consistent
with
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the
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username policy on Amharic Wikipedia, whether that policy is
driven
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in
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part
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by external considerations (e.g., does the project risk heavy
governmental
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scrutiny if it appears to "promote" locally unacceptable
activities). I
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am
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personally curious as to why it took over six months to identify
that
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this
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account did not meet the local username policy, and whether there
was
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internal or external discussion about the username.
It is not clear to me what the desired outcome is in this case -
at
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least
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in part because we have no idea of the opinion of the editor
involved.  I
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am hard-pressed to say that a project should be required to allow
usernames
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that it has a long history of considering unacceptable,
especially if
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it
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is
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applied evenly to all accounts; in this case, if it disallows
usernames
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that imply sexual preference regardless of what that preference
is.
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It seems to me that the WMF Trust & Safety group would probably be
the
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right group to examine this.
Risker/Anne
On Wed, 2 Jan 2019 at 09:42, Ariel Glenn WMF ariel@wikimedia.org
wrote:
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Additional notes:
The user's regular page can be viewed on en wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:QueerEcofeminist
Queer may have to do with gender identity as opposed to being an
indicator
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of 'sexual behavior', so the blockers didn't even get that
right.
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Example:
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I am gender-nonconforming as to my gender identity and
expression;
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this
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is
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the primary reason I use the label 'queer'.
I believe this should be reported... somewhere. But I don't know
where.
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The
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WMF CoC only covers technical spaces. A little help here?
Ariel
On Wed, Jan 2, 2019 at 4:26 PM Fæ faewik@gmail.com wrote:
> Do we have cross project policies to govern or limit local
policies
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> for the use of sysop tools? I would like to pass on policy
advice,
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> any past cases folks here would like to highlight that set a
> precedent.
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> The case below is illustrative, though based on my recall of
several
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> complaints which went nowhere over the years, on email lists,
and
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> Jimmy's talk page, about apparently arbitrary blocks on
different
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> non-English Wikipedias, it seems reasonable to believe those
> complaints are the tip of the iceberg, and there are likely
to be
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many
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> historical cases of blocks that could have been appealed...
had
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the
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> user been confident to complain in English, and have the
energy
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to
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> pursue generic WMF policies on terms of use, or
> harassment/discrimination, to establish a meta-level case.
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> # Example case
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> An account block on the Amharic Wikipedia (am.wp) was flagged
up
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> yesterday on the WM LGBT+ Telegram discussion group.[3] The
rationale
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> for blocking the account was because the account name includes
the
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> word "Queer"[1]. The incident raises questions about process
and
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> accountability, particularly as the block gives the impression
that
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> this is the norm or an agreed interpretation of policy for
sysops
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on
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> am.wp, and because the user is well established using this
account
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> name across Wikimedia projects and has never edited am.wp so
the
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block
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> cannot be based on any prior action or dispute.
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> In this example there is no obvious process for appeal, if
sysops
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on
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> that project think that blocking any LGBT+ related account
name
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> represents local consensus. After off-wiki discussion, the WMF
Trust
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> and Safety team has been approached for advice,[2] as the
rationale
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> for the action appears hostile to any openly LGBT+ volunteers
who
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> might want to include something queer looking in their account
name
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> (such as my account name, should anyone want to read it as
transgender
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> related).
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> # Links
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> 1.
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https://am.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%88%8D%E1%8B%A9:Contributions/QueerEcofemin...
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> the block log states "Names calling attention to your sexual
behavior
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> have never been allowed here in 15 years and aren't suddenly
allowed
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> in 2018"
> 2. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Trust_and_Safety
> 3. https://telegram.me/wmlgbt
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> Thanks
> Fae
> --
> faewik@gmail.com https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_LGBT+
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From: "Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga" galder158@hotmail.com
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Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2019 11:10:38 +0000
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia+Education Conference registration is now
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Dear Wikimedians,
The very fist Wikimedia+Education Conference will be organized this April
in Donostia, Basque Country. We have received more than 50 programme
proposals so far, and registration is now open. You can register or send
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Thanks you very much and hope to see you soon.
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