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-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org> on behalf of James Salsman <jsals...@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 <osama...@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. _______________________________________________ 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> _______________________________________________ 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>
