[14:30:14] <wm-bb>	 <Bill> there's something happening here, at the site of the 2027 Hackathon, what it is isn't exactly clear https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flamingo_Revolution
[14:53:39] <wm-bb>	 <malyacko> There are some countries in which some folks are unhappy with some government plans or decisions. Sounds pretty clear (and common) to me. (re @Bill: there's something happening here, at the site of the 2027 Hackathon, what it is isn't exactly clear https://en.wikipedia.org/wik...)
[15:01:03] <wm-bb>	 <tehreedy> We're also very much far enough out that if something escalated far enough to be problematic, that there is time to review options
[15:04:07] <wm-bb>	 <Sannita> to be fair, we had a GLAM Conference in Armenia just right after https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Armenian_Revolution and nobody was hurt
[15:04:31] <wm-bb>	 <Sannita> we as in "wikipedians", unfortunately I wasn't there to see it
[15:04:34] <wm-bb>	 <tehreedy> Yeah, it wouldn't be the first Wikimedia event adjacent to local... complexities :)
[15:07:37] <wm-bb>	 <Sannita> I just recalled we had a Wikimania in 2011 in Haifa, in a place where literally in front of it there were a local happening of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Israeli_social_justice_protests
[15:08:52] <wm-bb>	 <Sannita> and that one I experienced in person, nothing happened, everything was perfect
[15:44:32] <wm-bb>	 <nemoralis> Istanbul hackathon happened during https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025%E2%80%932026_Turkish_protests
[15:46:22] <wm-bb>	 <nemoralis> and this was the first day of hackathon: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp8jdk9jlgpo
[16:04:32] <wm-bb>	 <bozzy> I'm disappointed that on Commons I cannot find the sticker "Somebody should do something"
[16:04:59] <wm-bb>	 <bozzy> that I've seen on the table of the last wmhack
[16:08:10] <Reedy>	 heh
[16:08:40] <wm-bb>	 <bozzy> It's clear we must have somebody to do something about it
[16:11:07] <wm-bb>	 <malyacko> "Have organizers explicitly tell you in an email to avoid protests" is the traditional (slightly boring) approach.
[16:13:15] <wm-bb>	 <nemoralis> they did that on Istanbul, we received an email about that
[16:51:47] <wm-bb>	 <Jan_ainali> To be fair again, local Wikipedians partaking in the protests were arrested during this. (And a fairness on this, I  don't think they were Hackathon participants.) (re @nemoralis: The Istanbul hackathon took place during https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025%E2%80%932026_Turkish_protests)