[Foundation-l] Putin receives same award as Wikipedia

[Jimmy Wales]

I am scheduling a phone call with the Quadriga organization to try to 
get to the bottom of this.  I was not aware that the prize money from 
2008 has never arrived.  I will raise that issue as well.

On 7/10/11 3:56 PM, church.of.emacs.ml wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Vladimir Putin has been awarded the Quadriga Award, which is "dedicated
> to all of those whose courage tears down walls and whose commitment
> builds bridges"[1]. This is the same award Wikipedia received in 2008
> (Wikipedia being represented by Jimmy Wales). The award has been
> forwarded to Wikimedia Germany by Jimmy. The price money (25k€)
> apparently has not be transfered yet, due to financial problems of the
> funding organization.
>
> This disposition by the Quadriga committee has received criticism from
> both the German media and Wikipedians. It is seen as improper by German
> Wikipedians that Putin, responsible for human rights violations in
> Russia, shares the same award as Wikipedia. Some of them therefor call
> for a return and rejection of the Quadriga Award.
>
> It is especially noteworthy that Jimmy Wales is listed as a Quadriga
> Board member[2], which made some media report that he did not vote
> against Putin. In fact, he had nothing to do with the award, was not
> consulted, and states that he would not have voted for giving Putin any
> award.[3]
>
> The question now is: What's the best way to react to this? It seems that
> a proposal to RfC on returning Wikipedia's award is accepted by many
> German Wikipedians. Jimmy and Wikimedia Germany would probably have to
> agree with this, if we want to do this. Also, there's a question on
> whether to do this RfC on Meta or German Wikipedia.
>
> Any comments?
>
> Regards,
> Tobias
> User:Church of emacs
>
> [1] http://tafelderdemokratie.de/quadriga2/en
> [2] http://tafelderdemokratie.de/quadriga2/en/content/board-trustees
> [3]
> http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Caf%C3%A9&diff=91073655&oldid=91073589&hl=de
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