On Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 7:26 PM, Natacha Rault <n.rault(a)me.com> wrote:
...After all there is a notion called "freedom of
speech".... Katherine
Maher did a statement and so what? That does not prevent wikipedians from
editing, and confronting opinions to approach NPOV (actually there is no
achieved NPOV on Wikipedia in what concerns the gender biases as far as I
see it).
I imagine that your response would be different if Katherine's position
didn't match your own. What if she posted that she agreed that "extreme
vetting" was an appropriate response to the risk of terrorist attacks, that
nations with liberal refugee policies had experienced multiple attacks in
recent years, and that radicalism is an existential threat to free
societies? These are views shared by hundreds of millions of people
(although not you, Katherine, or me). This hopefully illustrates why taking
political positions beyond the mission is fraught with risk, and why the
frequent demands that the WMF (or the community) do so are misplaced.