Seeing as you decided to call me out specifically, that line of reasoning
falls apart when you note that WMF foundations funds and supports
initiatives that would been seen as supporting all of those examples you
gave:
- Wiki Loves Earth for animal sanctuaries, highlighting areas of natural
beauty and those that require protection
- WikiProject Medicine covers articles relating to opioid (and all
manner of other addictions)
- Art+Feminism and Wikimedia LGBT+ work to promote issues relating to
LGBT+ and feminist content worldwide
On Sun, 26 Apr 2020 at 22:35, Nathan <nawrich(a)gmail.com> wrote:
There's a tendency of people with an association
with the Wikimedia
movement to see it as a hammer that can be swung at every nail. This is
embodied most perfectly in the e-mail by Rebecca O'Neil, who claims that if
WMF doesn't take a position on any issue (or every issue?), it is taking a
position in support of the status quo.
That is absurd. The movement and the WMF have a purpose. That purpose is
not koala habitats, nor Superfund sites, nor opioid addiction nor LGTB
rights in Uganda. All those issues are valuable purposes for an
organization to have, but the WMF has a different purpose. Its activities
should be in pursuit of its mission. Not any and every mission that at
least some Wikimedians think is valuable.
All that said, how many views did the
wikimediafoundation.org site get
during the time the banner was up? A few hundred? A few thousand? Varnum
apologized, the banner was a bit of a rush job. Rather than arguing why WMF
should support all your pet causes or, alternatively, hand over the keys to
"the community" - maybe just move on.
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