[Foundation-l] WMF, and implications of non-discrimination on local projects?

[mbimmler at gmail.com]

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 at 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/Incidents#Does_the_WMF_have_any_non-discrimination_policy.3F
>
> And the section immediately above it.
>
> - Joe
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