Welcome, Esra'a! Congratulations!
Hasive WMBD On Sun, Dec 3, 2017 at 8:39 AM, Tim Landscheidt <[email protected]> wrote: > María Sefidari <[email protected]> wrote: > > > […] > > > Mike, as Cristian says - the Wikimedia movement has a history of trying > to > > balance the safety concerns of volunteers in not-so-free regions (to put > it > > mildly...) with having them contribute to our projects and events. We > > *need* these contributions, these voices - but we can sometimes be > > hard-pressed to understand the challenges associated. Esra'a is not > > requesting "security by obscurity" - she already has had ample media > > coverage and recognition, as can be read in the announcement. She has > even > > attended and given a (wonderful) keynote at Wikimania a few months ago. > We > > *can* successfully figure out together how to balance having her voice > > present while respecting her safety needs. > > > […] > > You are conflating two aspects here that are not congruent > (IMHO). > > If someone is requesting privacy, that is to be honored by > default (there are exceptions like Essjay or Amina Abdallah > Arraf al Omari, but I don't see that applicable here). It > is an individual choice to determine what one wants to share > about himself, and that decision is not up for discussion > (as long as there is no deception involved). > > If someone (or an organization) is requesting privacy "for > safety reasons", then that argument can be analyzed, > criticized and doubted. To parade someone in front of > several hundred strangers with the knowledge that a single > recognition would endanger that one's safety is negligent at > best (or, for a US-based organization: potentially costly). > > Tim > > > _______________________________________________ > 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: [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> > -- *Nurunnaby Chowdhury (Hasive) **:: **নুরুন্নবী চৌধুরী (হাছিব)* User: Hasive <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Hasive> | GSM/WhatsApp/Viber: +8801712754752 Administrator | Bengali Wikipedia <http://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/user:Hasive> Board Member | Wikimedia Bangladesh <http://www.wikimedia.org.bd/> fb.com/Hasive <http://fb.com/NCHasive> | @nhasive <http://www.twitter.com/nhasive> | www.nhasive.com _______________________________________________ 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: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
