Wikipedia:Open letters
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Open letters signed by Wikipedia contributors
From time to time, the Wikipedia community will write open letters on matters pertinent to Wikipedia or the Wikimedia Foundation. These open letters usually function as a coordinated response from the community to the issues at hand. In the past, these letters have been written by the English Wikipedia community, or the entire community. In the past, these letters have been addressed to the Wikimedia Foundation, or to government institutions. See also: meta:Open letter for letters in other languages and projects.
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| August 19, 2014 | Letter to Wikimedia Foundation: Superprotect and Media Viewer | In August 2014, Wikimedia Foundation introduced the 'superprotect' user right for its staff which would supercede local administrator's user rights. The Wikimedia community responded with an open letter urging the removal of the newly created user right along with allowing projects to opt-in on the usage Wikipedia:Media Viewer by consensus.
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Meta Wiki | 897 signatures:
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| June 23, 2015 | Open letter to the members of the European Parliament on preserving the freedom of panorama | In 2015, a proposed legislation was introduced in the European Parliament that would restrict freedom of panorama in Europe. A coordinated campaign across multiple projects ensued to convince the parliament to amend the proposed legislation. See: Wikipedia:Freedom of Panorama 2015, c:Commons:Freedom of Panorama 2015, m:Freedom of Panorama in Europe in 2015.
Outcome:
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Commons,
English Wikipedia German Wikipedia |
4,235 signatures |
| June 23, 2020 | Community open letter on renaming (COLOR) | We ask the Wikimedia Foundation to pause or stop its current movement renaming activities, due to persistent shortcomings in the current rebranding process. Future work should be restarted only in a way that ensures equitable decision-making.
Outcome:
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Meta Wiki | 1,098 signatures:
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| July 22, 2022 | Open letter from English Wikipedia New Page Reviewers | This is a call from 444 volunteer editors and administrators of the English Wikipedia asking the Wikimedia Foundation's CEO, senior staff, and the Board of Trustees, to address attention to urgently required software bugs and requests for the needs for the New Page Review system.
Outcome:
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English Wikipedia | 444 signatures |
| November 7, 2024 | 2024 open letter to the Wikimedia Foundation | In light of an ongoing legal case in India, we call upon the Foundation to prioritize the safety and well being of volunteers, even if it comes with a risk of legal action against the Foundation, or other costs. Any other action risks having a chilling effect on the work of volunteers across the project, and only makes it more likely that such pressure will be exerted in future.
Outcome: pending |
English Wikipedia | 1,375 signatures |
Notes
[edit ]- ^ For stability purposes, the number of signatures to ongoing letters should be updated with the totals based on the last edit of the previous day by the UTC timezone.
- ^ Wikimedia affiliates, i.e. chapters, user groups, thematic groups, may or may not be recognised by the Foundation through the Affiliations Committee
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