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On Thu, 9 May 2019, 3:57 pm Pine W, <wiki.p...@gmail.com> wrote: > The mailing list description says that the permitted types of announcements > are for "new versions, bug fixes, and security issues." Advertising of > commercial services is not included. Granted, the description does not > explicitly prohibit advertising. The absence of an explicit prohibition is > not sufficient for me to conclude that advertising a commercial hosting > service is OK to do. I think that permitting advertising is a bad idea 1. > with Wikimedia Foundation resources which are paid for by donors who are > told that their money will be used to support Wikipedia and its volunteers, > and 2. on a list that is used largely for technical communications. The > weighing of the factors that I have reviewed leads me to conclude that > advertising is prohibited here under current policy. > > I am willing to ask WMF Legal for its opinion regarding the use of > Wikimedia Foundation mailing lists for advertising commercial hosting > services, but even if WMF Legal thinks that this is OK in terms of the > letter of the law, I don't think that it's consistent with the intentions > of donors or my understanding of the Wikimedia Foundation brand. > > I am willing to make a formal proposal to add an explicit prohibition > against advertising on this list. > > > Pine > ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > To unsubscribe, go to: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
