Yes, that is what we are supposed to do and supposed to be good at. Cheers, Peter
From: Ilario Valdelli [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 02 March 2022 10:31 To: Wikimedia Mailing List Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Re: Sanctions against the Russian Federation; support for Ukrainian Wikimedians I agree and I think that the best support is to offer a neutral and complete information against any kind of propaganda. This is what Wikimedia can do better. Kind regards On Tue, 1 Mar 2022, 23:21 Valentin Nefedov, <[email protected]> wrote: Thanks for your support! The best "sanctions" WMF can implement is raising awareness about the whole situation. For example, the promotion of Ukraine's Cultural Diplomacy Month 2022 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ukraine%27s_Cultural_Diplomacy_Month_2022> . About Russian Wikipedia: unfortunately, most likely it will get banned in the Federation. More than 70 Russian Wikipedians wrote open letter to us on our village pump <https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D1%96%D0%BA%D1%96%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%B4%D1%96%D1%8F:%D0%9A%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BF%D0%B0_(%D1%80%D1%96%D0%B7%D0%BD%D0%B5)#%D0%9D%D1%96_%D0%B2%D1%96%D0%B9%D0%BD%D1%96!> where they condemned the invasion, so WMF might support people who signed this letter legally because of possible threats. Best regards, Renvoy вт, 1 бер. 2022 р. о 22:57 James Heilman <[email protected]> пише: I wonder if a banner raising awareness regarding the existence of offline apps specifically Kiwix for when communication goes down would be useful? https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.kiwix.kiwixmobile <https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.kiwix.kiwixmobile&hl=en_CA&gl=US> &hl=en_CA&gl=US We also have Internet in a Box, with instruction on how to build your own here https://mdwiki.org/wiki/WikiProjectMed:Internet-in-a-Box James On Tue, Mar 1, 2022 at 2:37 PM GorillaWarfare <[email protected]> wrote: +1 on the "what can we all do to help?" question. On the VPN topic, I suspect the functionary teams will be pretty open to granting IPBE for folks editing from that region. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:IP_block_exemption#Used_for_anonymous_proxy_editing has details if anyone needs it. – Molly White (GorillaWarfare) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:GorillaWarfare she/her _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list -- [email protected], guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l Public archives at https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/message/ZYJG2NIRGKQESE4ZRQJRZODURYDGZ55F/ To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list -- [email protected], guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l Public archives at https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/message/OJBWUCGPUDA6BROQPCHVYMQQIGC2V73G/ To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list -- [email protected], guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l Public archives at https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/message/2VGRC3NI5GWCUMUMBBG463RZS7JREZIB/ To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] <http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=emailclient> Virus-free. <http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=emailclient> www.avg.com
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