Good Day Robert
I believe that the actual reason you were deregistered was for refusing to
follow the "Friendly space policy" By taking photos and videos of people
without consent, and refusing to stop when you were requested to do so.
I would love to hear about your presentation on Apartheid, which as you
correctly point is still a painful topic for us in this country. Are you
are to share it on this platform?
Kindest regards
Dumisani Ndubane
On Jul 20, 2018 17:39, "ubuntupunk(a)gmail.com" <ubuntupunk(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
With regard to my deregistration today, I have refuted the allegations that
I attended and disrupted the Tunis Conference, was never there, also was
not admitted to the Decolonising the Internet preconference.
Not sure which is more pathetic an invitation-only, secret "Decolonising
the Internet Conference" or a Wikimania Event held in Cape Town South
Africa, that can't find a space for a session on apartheid memory? Yes, you
read that right, apartheid, the thing that our country is famous for, the
problem of lack of digital assets of banned publications like Grassroots,
South Press and New Nation. Editors were detained and tortured, people were
forceably disappeared, and you want me to accept the allegation that I am
hurting the organisers and delegates feelings by raising this question
outside the event? Why am I on the outside, because that's where I belong.
#Wikimania #WikiRacism #WikiApartheid #WikiDeletions
Placing a person under discursive sanctions, clamping down on press freedom
and barring me from a Wikipedia Conference is never the correct response to
the questions: What about Apartheid Deletions? What about Apartheid Memory?
What about lack of digital assets for the anti-apartheid movement on
Wikipedia
@*jimmy_wales* <https://twitter.com/jimmy_wales> I am personally
complaining and holding responsible for my de-registration & lack of
apartheid memory session at @*Wikimania* <https://twitter.com/Wikimania>.
Absolutely appalling organisers treat anti-apartheid activists with same
contempt as apartheid state
This is where I start placarding and reaching out to other banned
individuals
I think we need to educate people on what is occurring here, build our own
wikipedias, and do as much as possible to disrupt the Wikimedia Foundation
and its Collaboration with the Alt-Right Apartheid State
https://etherpad.net/p/Wikimania_Censorship
On 20 July 2018 at 15:59, Michael Graaf <graaf.michael(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Dear all,
as many people have asked me to share the slides I and others presented at
Wikimania, and also as I represented Wikimedia-ZA at the Celtic Knot
conference, I am sharing the online doc where we workshopped before and
right up to the last minute:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1aFY4uxHEHBeBIkoznzO3-
TGAY3PI8XPo3Oh6RnVRWhI/edit?usp=sharing
I have also cc'd Kirsten whom I met at Wikimania who wishes to join
Wikimedia-ZA's email list please.
Regards,
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*Researcher, Editor &*
*Community Informatics Practitioner*
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+27795487242
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