On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 10:48 AM, Ilario Valdelli <valde...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > The question is that all Internet people in Italy is having strike > because the project of law can be stopped if not approved. If it will > be approved, it's harder to do something. > > It means that any action must be done now. > > Ilario >
Sure, I understand. My immediate gut reaction was that I'm leery of Wikimedia projects, of themselves and independent from the WMF, getting involved in political advocacy and protest actions. On second thought, though, I suppose if a U.S. law placed an untenable burden on the English Wikipedia, we might take some action in our organizational self-interest. I do think the WMF should have a role in this decision; I suppose the question of project self-negation hasn't really arisen in the past - but I'm not sure that, as a general rule, projects should be able to voluntarily make themselves unavailable. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
