[Foundation-l] WMF, and implications of non-discrimination on local projects?

Fri Sep 26 13:42:39 UTC 2008

The non-discrimination policy [1] says:

"The Wikimedia Foundation prohibits discrimination against current or
prospective users and employees..."

I'm not sure what was intended by "users", but I suppose it might be
interpreted to include editors, admins, etc.

-Robert Rohde

[1] http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Non_discrimination_policy

On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 6:24 AM,  <mbimmler at gmail.com> wrote:
> IANAL but I doubt it. Such norms, on whatever level tend to focus only
> on formal employment and access to services aimed at the general
> public. You're free to cast votes on politicians (and board members,
> for that matter) based on solely religious (or gender or whatever)
> grounds. I consider rfas rather analogous, with regards to individual
> cast votes. If the entire community turns strictly anti-Semitic or
> anti-LGBT or pro-White or whatever, or if a bureaucrat closes votes on
> such grounds, that's something else.
>
> Michael
>
>
> On 9/26/08, Joe Szilagyi <szilagyi at gmail.com> wrote:
>> This is probably a tempest in a teapot, but it seemed like an interesting
>> question. On a local "request for adminship" on English Wikipedia, an editor
>> has stated he will not support anyone who is not Christian for Adminship,
>> and the RFA in question is getting very intense. Would people opposing
>> actions or volunteer positions based on religion, creed, race, or sexuality
>> of a user run afoul of any local United States discrimination laws, or local
>> San Francisco, California ones, where the WMF is housed?
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents#Does_the_WMF_have_any_non-discrimination_policy.3F
>>
>> And the section immediately above it.
>>
>> - Joe
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