On 13 March 2014 11:32, Risker <risker.wp(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Mostly, though....this just really feels like it is
trying to take the
Wikimedia community down a path that has nothing to do with our core
objectives, and to turn us into just another advocacy group. I'm not
interested in that.
+1
The Convention on the Rights of the Child is a good and important
thing, and I would certainly agree that the two nations which have
somehow neglected to ratify it should certainly be strongly encouraged
to do so...
...but I would strongly oppose WMF being the vehicle for such domestic
political campaigning. It's simply not what it's for. Likewise the
appearance of tax policy or education funding.
On much the same basis, I would be uncomfortable with Greenpeace being
persuaded to act as a spokesman for net neutrality, or for UNICEF to
suddenly start aggressively campaigning against whaling. All good
topics, but they should have other priorities.
The underlying argument here seems to be "these things are important
and indirectly affect the work we do or might do". However, were we to
follow this to its logical end, we should campaign to shut down about
half the world's charities and redirect all their funds to researching
asteroid deflection...
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