[Advocacy Advisors] [Wikimediauk-l] EU copyright consultation deadline has beenextended

Wed Feb 12 20:27:22 UTC 2014

To be clear, when I said "I agree" I meant that I agree that it is the
wrong tool. So Amgine and I agree (not sure about Aktron, but I think he
also agrees).

I could see a time when using sitenotice for copyright advocacy could be
appropriate - but it would have to be a very specific, targeted issue,
where timely action by a large number of people could make a very large
impact. This clearly is not that sort of thing.

Luis

On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 12:23 PM, Amgine <amgine at wikimedians.ca> wrote:

> I don't agree with using the SiteNotice. Over-use of this tool is
> encouraging people to ignore it, and to block it. The practice of the WMF
> to arbitrarily clear user preferences to close central notice pisses people
> off.
>
> IMO central notice should only be used in a life-or-death situation. This
> isn't it.
>
> Amgine
>
>
> On 12 Feb 2014, at 9:56, Luis Villa <lvilla at wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 4:11 AM, <aktron at centrum.cz> wrote:
> > Luis,
> >
> > Some of the people (outside of WM community) suggested that it might be
> a good idea to promote this via SiteNotidce. But I think it is quite a
> brutal tool.
> >
> > I agree. Does anyone else have other suggestions?
> >
> >
> > Btw.: What do you mean by "load into"? I mean, I already did the Czech
> translation for copywrongs and I know the youcan.fixcopyright.eu but a
> question remains ... what is the thing you wanted to do by "loading"?
> >
> > I meant "whatever it takes to get the content into the tool" - don't
> know if it is in git, in a wiki, maintained by hand, etc. Presumably
> someone has to do some work to make the answers appear on the site :)
> >
> > Luis
> >
> > Jan
>
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