I would recommend that Russian Wikipedia adopt a policy similar to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:USERBOXES#Content_restrictions
># Userboxes must not be inflammatory or divisive. ># Wikipedia is not an appropriate place for propaganda, advocacy, or >recruitment of any kind, commercial, political, religious, or >otherwise, opinion pieces on current affairs or politics, >self-promotion, or advertising. I would also note that the sorts of people who deny the Holocaust are generally the sorts of people who ought to be blocked on sight from editing Wikipedia. --Jimbo Yaroslav M. Blanter wrote: >> Any society considering a Great Firewall of any sort is neither >> democratic nor open, whether or not they periodically hold votes on >> exactly who should implement bad ideas. We should not in any way >> acknowledge or respect such, though we should help those who live >> there and encourage and assist them in circumvention. >> >> -- > Well, here comes a real life story. Several days ago, someone on ru.wp > village pump drew the attention of the community to the existence of a > userbox "This user denies Holocost". I speedily deleted the userbox (it > has been used on a number of user pages), since the Holocost denial is > illegal in a number of European countries and constitutes a criminal > offense, and I was afraid that the access to ru.wp will be blocked in > these countries. However, the community has explicitly chosen to ignore > the issue: Any userboxes are currently allowed provided they do not break > the laws of the state of Florida. When I realized that I basically broke > the rules trying to obey the law, I restored the userbox (it has been > later removed by another sysop, and the discussion is still going and will > most probably result in an arbitration case against us), but the issue is > still there. (Note that this does not concern the content, only the > design). > > On the other hand, obviously we can not obey all the laws in all > countries. For instance, in Iran LBGT topic are prohibited, and following > this logic we need to remove all LGBT articles from all language editions, > most notably from fa.wp, and content removal clearly contradicts the WMF > goals. > > Cheers > Yaroslav > > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
