I can see how it can attract AND repel volunteers overall, just as we see it attractive and off-putting to people discussing on this list.
________________________________ From: Wikimedia-l wikimedia-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org on behalf of James Salsman jsalsman@gmail.com Sent: Tuesday, March 7, 2017 6:17:19 PM To: Wikimedia Mailing List Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] More politics: "WMF Annual Report"
On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 5:49 PM, Leigh Thelmadatter osamadre@hotmail.com wrote:
Equally James, how is this advocacy "extremely helpful"? How does it help the building and maintainence of Wikimedia projects? How does it help the many volunteers who work on these projects?
Taking a stand for personal freedom attracts volunteers in support of free culture, just as supporting scientific consensus opposed by money in politics attracts those who value accuracy.
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