Dear Jan, Well, the accuracy of the press release would be enhanced if it mentioned the support China received from over a dozen other countries.
This isn't just my opinion: https://twitter.com/Wikiland/status/1550515724673761280 Congratulations on the ECOSOC accreditation. Andreas On Mon, Jul 25, 2022 at 1:36 PM Jan Gerlach <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Andreas > > China was in fact the only country to oppose the Wikimedia chapters' > request for observer status. Other countries for political or unknown > reasons may have aligned with China's position on process, but no country > besides China unilaterally or independently opposed the Wikimedia chapters' > request. > > Relatedly, you may have seen that the Wikimedia Foundation just obtained > accreditation at the UN's Economic and Social Affairs Council where a > similar situation was unblocked by a vote of the member countries: > > > https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2022/07/22/wikimedia-foundation-earns-accreditation-to-the-united-nations-economic-and-social-affairs-council-ecosoc/ > > > Best, > Jan > > > == > > > > Jan Gerlach > Public Policy Director > Wikimedia Foundation > 1 Montgomery Street, Suite 1600 > San Francisco, CA 94104 > [email protected] > > > Andreas Kolbe <[email protected]> schrieb am Fr., 22. Juli 2022, 19:44: > >> Dear all, >> >> A week ago, the WMF issued a press release, "Seven Wikimedia chapters >> rejected as permanent observers to the World Intellectual Property >> Organization (WIPO)": >> >> >> https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2022/07/15/seven-wikimedia-chapters-rejected-as-permanent-observers-to-wipo/ >> >> This stated, in part, "China was the only country to oppose the Wikimedia >> chapters’ request for observer status, again, claiming that chapters were >> complicit in spreading disinformation and are subsidiaries of the Wikimedia >> Foundation. These statements are unfounded and misrepresent Wikipedia’s >> model which prioritizes accuracy, neutrality, as well as the fact that the >> chapters are completely autonomous." >> >> About a week ago, I had seen and retweeted a Twitter thread[1] by James >> Love[2], the Director of Knowledge Ecology International, listing a whole >> litany of countries that had supported China's position. >> >> I checked the webcast of the July 15 WIPO proceedings today,[3] and there >> were over a dozen countries – Russia, Belarus, Pakistan, Kyrgyzstan, >> Tajikistan, Iran, Syria, Algeria, Zimbabwe, Nicaragua, Cuba, Bolivia, >> Venezuela, North Korea – that took the floor to support and endorse China's >> position – more, in fact, than took the floor to support the chapters' >> approval. >> >> Would it be possible to amend the press release accordingly? >> >> Best, >> Andreas >> >> [1] https://twitter.com/jamie_love/status/1550520525180518400 >> [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Love_(NGO_director) >> [3] Available here: https://webcast.wipo.int/ (afternoon session of July >> 15, part 6. Admission of Observers) >> _______________________________________________ >> 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/FFW3N6PUH4FBTVTARHVY7KRYK57T5NTP/ >> 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/D2PSLNKVG2DJXVUTXPA5374TTHPPCFMK/ > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
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