On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 9:12 AM, Donaldo Papero <pap3ri...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > Here are the facts: the Italian parliament will discuss within few days – > and most likely approve – a law which, among the other things, will > introduce the duty, for every web site (included, and not limited to, > Wikipedia) to publish amendments to previously published information. > > According to the proposal ( > http://www.senato.it/service/PDF/PDFServer/BGT/00484629.pdf), the required > amendment cannot be modified, nor commented, and must be placed in article’s > body, in the same format and with the same visibility of the allegedly > defaming text. > Moreover: the amendment must be published upon every request, without taking > into account whether the information is true or not and whether references > are available for it or not. > > Also, please, be aware of the fact that (as for the recent Google and > Microsoft cases) the principle that the proposed law is going to introduce > will be applicable to “all” sites, not only Italian’s: if somebody from > Italy will post any information on, say, en.wikip, the rule will make it > mandatory for en.wikip to post an amendment, if required. Which, at least, > will mean incoming legal issues or inquiries to be managed by WMF, with > related expenses. In short words: this rule, if approved, will be a complete > mess for Wikipedia. > > Because of such a risk (it’s easily understandable that this rule will make > encyclopedia articles as pure “frames” for unchangeable text imposed by > others), the Italian community has decided, by a vast majority (see > http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bar/Discussioni/Comma_29_e_Wikipedia) > to lock both read and write access to encyclopedia articles and to publish > the following text as full screen sitenotice: > http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utente:Vituzzu/comunicato (an English > translation is available here: > http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utente:Vituzzu/comunicato/en). This decision > will be implemented as soon as possible, during the next 12 hours. > > Giovanni AKA Pap3rinik (sysop at it.wikip) > >
Hi Giovanni (or Donaldo?), Has anyone at it.wp been in touch with Foundation staff? Locking a major wiki seems like a pretty big step, perhaps they could provide some advice or resources? Am I correct in understanding this lock as a protest of the proposed law, since it hasn't been discussed or voted upon in parliament yet? Such a political protest seems like an unprecedented step for a Wikimedia project. Nathan _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
