[Advocacy Advisors] Policy Issues Survey 2013

Tue Oct 22 08:30:04 UTC 2013

Thank you, Dimi, this is very helpful.

Government freedom of information and Wikipedia is indicated as top
importance, but Jimmy Wales recently indicated that we should not
release logs about what IP addresses assigned to specific public
agencies have been reading. I am okay with that, but there are other
issues recently involving an editor from the EPA responsible for
pesticide testing trying to downplay the toxicity of the
neonicotinoids, and do I ever have a story to tell you about depleted
uranium, but per the following I have become very eventualist about
it:

http://www.iom.edu/Reports/2013/Gulf-War-and-HealthTreatment-for-Chronic-Multisymptom-Illness/Report-Brief012313.aspx

http://www.gulflink.osd.mil/medsearch/Cancer/DoD122.shtml

http://www.smj.org.sa/PDFFiles/May12/Uranium.pdf

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1242351/

http://www.marciainhorn.com/olwp/wp-content/uploads/Effect-of-war-on-fertility-a-review-of-the-literature.pdf

http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/10/04/are-scientists-being-muzzled-a-look-at-the-record/

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2013/oct/13/world-health-organisation-iraq-war-depleted-uranium

I would be very interested to learn your thoughts on the top priorities.

Best regards,
James Salsman

On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 5:25 PM, Dimitar Parvanov Dimitrov
<dimitar.parvanov.dimitrov at gmail.com> wrote:
> Salut la liste!
>
> At this year's Wikimania in Hong Kong we launched a survey targeted mainly
> at Wikimedians asking them which policy issues are most important to them.
> We had 137 people filling out the questionnarie, which is a decent number
> for a first go. A summary of the results, as well as the full data itself
> can be accessed via a dedicated meta page [1].
>
> As with everything else, fell free to share, copy re-mix and re-use as you
> see fit.
>
> Greeting from Brussels!
> Dimi
>
> [1]https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/EU_policy/Survey
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