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The Wikimedia foundation wants to join the UN

Post by Kumioko » Mon Jul 18, 2022 12:44 am

The Wikimedia foundation stated today on twitter they believe they deserve to be granted UN consultative status.

They've said this before a few times and I again say I think they are utter morons if they deserve a seat at that table!

I attempted to post a screenshot but it says its too large, (like the Wikimedia foundations ego it seems). But here is a link: https://twitter.com/Wikimedia/status/1 ... yMCNw&s=19
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Re: The Wikimedia foundation wants to join the UN

Post by badmachine » Mon Jul 18, 2022 6:42 am

frankly they deserve each other tbqh

omg wmf is now a human rights org? lol
“Opening the UN’s doors to six more rights groups would be a step in the right direction. But it’s only a start.“—@loucharbon on why @wikimedia and five other human rights organizations should be granted @UN consultative status next Thursday. On @hrw ⬇️

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Re: The Wikimedia foundation wants to join the UN

Post by ericbarbour » Mon Jul 18, 2022 8:25 am

Yes, that was an inevitable next step for the WMF.

Thing is, they're total hypocrites--as usual. "Human rights for good Wikipedians, not for YOU".

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Re: The Wikimedia foundation wants to join the UN

Post by ericbarbour » Mon Jul 18, 2022 8:22 pm

The Belarusian Helsinki Committee clearly deserves some kind of special recognition from the UN, considering that they have been purged from their home country and many of their members are in Belarusian prisons for "unspecified reasons". Most of the former Soviet republics have serious problems with corruption and Belarus is one of the worst. Lukashenko is one of those classic "President For Life And I Own All State Enterprises" types.

If someone tosses Jimbo Wales in prison and starts beating him on the testicles, then MAYBE the WMF MIGHT deserve some kind of special recognition for "defending human rights". Until then, we can openly laugh at them. (We can ALWAYS laugh at JImbo's testicles, beaten or not beaten.)

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Re: The Wikimedia foundation wants to join the UN

Post by Kumioko » Tue Jul 19, 2022 12:23 am

I hate to give a hat tip to Wikipediocracy but someone posted a good point about who would actually need to approve the Wikimedia foundations consultancy. That list includes Russia, turkey and China, all of which have histories with the WMF.

Me thinks there is absolutey no chance they're getting in. However, just for fun, here are 5 I think would be fun to represent the WMF.

- FAE
- Drmies
- Bbb23
- Molly White/Gorilla warfare
- Tamzin
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Re: The Wikimedia foundation wants to join the UN

Post by Strelnikov » Tue Jul 19, 2022 1:09 am

ericbarbour wrote:
Mon Jul 18, 2022 8:22 pm
The Belarusian Helsinki Committee clearly deserves some kind of special recognition from the UN, considering that they have been purged from their home country and many of their members are in Belarusian prisons for "unspecified reasons". Most of the former Soviet republics have serious problems with corruption and Belarus is one of the worst. Lukashenko is one of those classic "President For Life And I Own All State Enterprises" types.

If someone tosses Jimbo Wales in prison and starts beating him on the testicles, then MAYBE the WMF MIGHT deserve some kind of special recognition for "defending human rights". Until then, we can openly laugh at them. (We can ALWAYS laugh at JImbo's testicles, beaten or not beaten.)
The real deal with "White Russia"* is that Lukaskenko makes a lot of money off cigarette smuggling to the other ex-Soviet republics, plus breaking EU bans on selling certain foods to Russia that have been around since 2014, plus other VAT tax chiseling and import-export paperwork nonsense. Nexta (the dissenting Belarusian news outlet) did an entire documentary on it a year ago and it has English subtitles if you press the "CC" button (they made the video unplayable except on YouTube):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nneIt3EyClI


They only have a population of nine million, but these schemes by default increased budgets. Alexander Lukashenko was elected to the new office of Belarusian president in 1994 and he has never left. He was liked in the 1990s because he stopped the same Libertarian-style lunatic privatizations inside the country that were hitting all the ex-Soviet republics and Warsaw Pact states, he helped create a mixed economy and it saved the place from the Russian horror show of the Yeltsin years (Russia still has a flat tax thanks to the Yeltsin years.) During the slowdown in the world economy thanks to the 2008 US financial meltdown, he tried to pull a variant of the Japanese "overhire" trick by increasing the government workforce, but then he had to devalue the currency and it just made social services worse. This finally led to the 2020 uprisings after the contested election, the police crackdown as a response, and those alternate Belarusian flags with the white field and the red band with the red shield and the knight on horseback. Then the Russo-Ukraine war happened and knocked Belarus off the radar. That Belarusian Helsinki Committee has been around since 1995.

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* That's what the name of the country means; there are conflicting theories as to where it came from.....Wikipedia has a lumpy article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etymology_of_Belarus I thought it had to do with the soil; Ukraine is "black soil" because it is a breadbasket, Belarus is much less of a grain producer.
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Re: The Wikimedia foundation wants to join the UN

Post by Dr Mario » Fri Sep 16, 2022 6:38 pm

OMG :lol: :lol:
They should demand seet at United Nations Security Council while they are at it. Then they can dine at the same table as Russia, and China

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Re: The Wikimedia foundation wants to join the UN

Post by ericbarbour » Fri Sep 16, 2022 7:50 pm

Wikimedia boogers have no idea what "repression" is like. Most of them come from boring Western democracies where you can shoot your mouth off online, do all kinds of stupid shit, without being arrested or beaten.

I keep hoping they pull something stupid, like having the next Wikimania in Moscow or Minsk. "To show the rest of the world we are not afraid". Then they show up at the airport and get dragged away by the secret police. "Why isn't the UN helping us? Waaahhhhh"

But judging by the way the Ukraine war is being mishandled, they might be as safe as little babes in Moscow. Putin will die soon and his oligarchs will get on their 250-meter-long yachts and hide somewhere with no extradition treaty. Then mighty mother Russia will turn into a giant Hunger Games theme park?

https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/13/europe/u ... index.html

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Re: The Wikimedia foundation wants to join the UN

Post by ericbarbour » Fri Sep 30, 2022 8:24 pm

As it turned out: they got "consultative/observer status" in July. But only to one obscure UN committee.

Needless to say, they bragged about it. As if it makes them "important" or something.

https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/20 ... il-ecosoc/

Meanwhile, the WMF continues to suck up to WIPO, seeking observer status.
And China continues to block them.
https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/20 ... editation/
Their last-minute objections claimed Wikimedia’s application was incomplete, and suggested that the Wikimedia Foundation was carrying out political activities via the volunteer-led Wikimedia Taiwan chapter.

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