AFAIK, both Twitter and Facebook are banned by the Turkish government. Regards,
Isaac On Mar 6, 2018 8:50 AM, "mathieu stumpf guntz" < [email protected]> wrote: > Hello Zachary, > > First, thank you and all people involved for this great initiative. > > There are two points for which I would be happy to have more information > about. > > The first one is about the state of censorship in Turkey, not only > regarding each Wikimedia project, but also for the communication canal > intended to diffuse this campaign, namely Facebook and Twitter. Are they > free of any censorship from the Turkish government? Also, although I guess > this was already taken into account, is there some some communication > platform particularly praised among Turkish people outside this two > platform? > > The second is more broad, on the Wikimedia effort regarding censorship. > There are some resources I easily found [1][2][3], but nothing as an > official up-to-date comprehensive overview of the state of censorship > affecting Wikimedia projects in the world. Something like a page including > a world map showing various degree of censorship and a description of how > and why it's in place, as well as Wikimedia initiatives aiming at making > cease this kind of practices. > > Thank you again for this initiative, and thank you in advance for any > feedback on this points. > > [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Censorship > [2] https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Notices_received_from_ > search_engines > [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_of_Wikipedia > > > Le 05/03/2018 à 20:44, Zachary McCune a écrit : > >> Hi everyone, >> >> For the last 10 months, several teams within the Wikimedia Foundation have >> been working with the local Turkish community to lift the block of >> Wikipedia in Turkey. >> >> Today, we have launched a social media campaign designed to help raise >> international awareness of the block and send a positive message to our >> friends in Turkey. We are asking individual volunteers, affiliates, and >> anyone else who would like to participate to join us in one of several >> ways. More details are below and on Meta-Wiki: >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/ >> wiki/Communications/WeMissTurkey >> >> The campaign, based around the hashtag #WeMissTurkey, is an opportunity >> for >> all of us to tell our friends in Turkey that we miss them and help inform >> the world what impact their absence is having. >> >> >> == An overview of the #WeMissTurkey campaign == >> >> From March 5-12, we will be reminding the world about the Turkish block >> of >> Wikipedia. We will communicate primarily on Twitter and Facebook- networks >> where advocates for Wikipedia can increase the reach of messages about the >> block. >> >> On Twitter, we will share a series of tweets about Turkish culture, >> history, sports, etc. from @Wikipedia . We’ll also be sharing messages >> that >> express sadness for missing the perspectives of Turkish people on our >> projects, and our hopes that access to Wikipedia will be restored in >> Turkey. >> >> On Facebook, we have developed a "photo frame" users can add to their >> profile picture to show support for Wikipedia in Turkey. >> >> In addition to posting messages, we will also be sharing some posters from >> Turkish artists which help visualize the culture and knowledge we are >> missing. The posters will be released throughout the week and available >> for >> you to utilize. We invite you to develop posters or graphics of your own. >> >> We hope that affiliates and volunteers around the world will join us! You >> can get involved in a number of ways, including by creating, sharing, and >> retweeting messages, sharing our posters and creating your own, and more! >> More details on how to get involved are on the Meta-Wiki campaign page: >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communications/WeMissTurkey >> >> >> == On tone == >> >> The messages for this campaign are being directed to the people of Turkey, >> and have a positive message and tone. We do not want to use this campaign >> to directly confront authorities in Turkey. We are asking that others >> managing Wikimedia social media accounts join us, and be respectful of the >> positive goal and message. This messaging approach for the campaign is >> part >> of a broader, ongoing strategy from the Wikimedia Foundation to lift the >> block of Wikipedia in Turkey. >> >> >> If you have any questions, let us know! >> >> >> Zack & the Comms team >> >> >> > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wik > i/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> _______________________________________________ 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>
