On Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 7:26 PM, Natacha Rault n.rault@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.