> Refugees ... don't have anything to do with the WMF Someone forgot to tell that to the Foundation volunteers working on
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/12/24/refugee-phrasebook/ which is directly linked from that section of the Annual Report. > messages like this "empower" only those who agree with them Should the Mission be amended to exclude those who government officials have decided are no longer allowed to have freedom of movement across borders? > This sort of thing can be pretty exclusionary and disempowering if > you do not agree with the rather unsubtle political stances being taken. Is there any actual evidence of this? People said the same thing about the SOPA/PIPA protest, but there was no change to editing levels and the responses from the community and donors were very strongly positive when they were asked directly. There was just a familiar vocal minority who were adamantly complaining that the Foundation's purity of essence had been corrupted. > It also just provides more fuel for those arguing that Wikipedia is a > left-wing advocacy organisation rather than a credible, neutral, and > trustworthy source of bias-free information. On the contrary, the left-wing is the only source of credible, trustworthy, and bias-free information on a wide variety of topics such as climate change. Equating neutrality with credibility and trustworthiness is a clear mistake, because political bias is not orthogonal to factual bias. > imagine it is October.... The Comms team begins writing a report. If > Hillary Clinton had won, it's likely that these would not have looked so > terribly much like political statements. It may have looked like a normal > affirmation of acceptable values.... But America went another direction > and now things that could have been considered normalish suddenly > look like a shot fired round the world. Exactly; well put, Anna! > it's ultimately not mission aligned This, again, is the real dispute, whether the word "empower" in the Mission means anything about actual power beyond mere facilitation. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
