Dear Olga and WLM Ukraine - your work is impressive and your efforts to
bring visibility and point to issues with WLM in 2022 are also.
I can empathize with the feeling one gets when others are benevolent to
recognize and act on what seems obvious *(as someone who experienced war
aggression in all of my homelands, first SFR Yugoslavia, then Croatia and
Bosnia & Herzegovina. I do agree that the WLM 2022 international team
should not process Russian photos in a competitive way against Ukrainians
and I wish this was raised as an issue more publicly. WLM had issues also
before with inertia and no capacity and/or good will to recognize problems
on national levels. Here I agree with Peter on* no good options *but this
is no excuse for not exploring good-enough or better-than options!
I am hopeful that your work will sustain and that soon enough you will
inform and inspire systemic change in Wikimedia.
Meanwhile I hope WMF can practically support your work at least with
material resources to reduce some of the hardships.
In solidarity - Z. Blace