I thought of requesting a banner (with consent and support from the wide
community) in all sites of Wikimedia projects expressing support for Net
Neutrality. In the link, we can explain people why Net Neutrality is
important and why the Wikimedia community is supporting the cause.
We can start creating the proposal to get the support from the community
and then request WMF to assist us in banners across sites.
The deadline for expressing support is 24 April 2015.
Regards from Mumbai,
Karthik Nadar.
On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 8:44 AM, Ashwin Baindur <ashwin.baindur(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Thanks for highlighting this issue! Karthik. The
proposal violate the
complete spirit of equality that Wikipedia promotes. Imho every
Wikipedia who believes in the Five Pillars is morally bound to
represent.
So guys, I have represented in various ways. Have you?
On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 12:29 PM, Jayantilal Kothari
<jayantilalkkd(a)gmail.com> wrote:
To understand what exactly is net neutrality
please watch this video.
http://goo.gl/6KDcvV
Regards,
Jayantilal
On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 12:16 PM, Karthik Nadar <karthikndr(a)wikimedia.in
wrote:
>
> Dear all,
>
> As Wikipedians, I'm not sure how many support Net Neutrality, but as
> Netizens I'm sure most of them are supporting Net Neutrality.
>
> Considering 24 April 2015 is the last day to protest against telecoms
and
> request TRAI to have to have relook onto the
consultation paper, I think
> Wikipedia also stands as a major platform to lend support to all
Netizens
> including ourselves.
>
> I do recollect how Wikipedia helped protest against SOPA and PIPA. I
think
> this kind of protest will help the maximum
community of Netizens as
whole.
> Also, as Indian Wikipedians, we would grab
some eyballs which would have
> impact on contributions to Wikimedia projects as well.
>
> I think Wikipedia, especially the English community should initiate a
> discussion on how the community and contribute to create an impact in
India.
>
>
> Please note: Wikipedia Zero and Airtel Zero (just as an example) is all
> together a different concept; where the first focuses on on giving
> educational right to individuals and later to promote business of their
> partners by various means (speeding their partners site, slowing down
> competitors site and so on).
>
> FYI: Flipkart did withdrew from Airtel Zero lending your official
support
to Net
Neutrality.
Some more facts:
* Net Neutrality in India Wikipedia article is seeing increase everydays
in terms of views
* More than 4 lakhs emails has been sent to TRAI from
http://www.netneutrality.in/ alone
"Just imagine a day a paid encyclopedia loads faster in all ISPs then
Wikipedia." Do we want to see such a day?
Regards from Mumbai,
Karthik Nadar.
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