On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 21:38, Mateus Nobre <mateus.no...@live.co.uk> wrote: > It's complex, Milos. > > We are not activists. Being a volunteer in Wikimedia do not torn ourselves > activists. > > It could be, but the option to be a volunteer in Wikipedia is just a option > to share the free knowledge, not about political issues. > > I totally agree to fight against censorships in Internet and in real life, I > agree with that. And I fight against that. We can, as people and citizens; > But Wikimedia Foundation can't, cause we can't force the volunteers to agree > that visions.
I know that it's complex, of course. And I know that it was necessary to see that our bunker is on the front line to realize that it's better to help others before. > We're not a political party (yet?) At some point of time we'll have to articulate ourselves politically. There is relatively clear set of values behind our movement and there are clear benefits which all humans are getting thanks to our work. Pretending that we are apolitical makes our position worse and inevitably leads to the crisis, like this one is. Leadership inside of one network, no matter how loose the connections are inside of that network, has responsibility to raise and articulate relevant political issues, as well. And I am glad to see that Jimmy has taken at least the articulation role in this case. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
