2011/10/4 emijrp <emi...@gmail.com> > > Hi all; > > The events regarding Italian Wikipedia blanking[1][2] of all its content are > a serious precedent IMHO. They can make a lot of noise using other > procedures, like a big blinking site notice, but giving no choice to read > the content is against the main goal of Wikipedia.[3] > > Italian Wikipedia has about 500,000 page views per hour,[4] and readers are > getting worried about how long is this going to last. A global encyclopedia > managed in these ways is not trustworthy. This is worst in public image than > any gender, global south or image filtering media flame war. > > Furthermore, this only make me more concerned about the missing updated, > secure and trustworthy mirrors of Wikipedia content. > > Fortunately, you still can read the mobile version, but it is "limited".[5] > (Please, spread the word about this)
1: In 1995 the famous Russian TV journalist [[Vladislav Listyev]] was murdered. A day after the murder most Russian TV channels were blanked for a whole day in protest against the rampaging lawlessness and violence. As far as i know, most people who watched TV in Russian - in Russia, as well as in Israel, Germany and elsewhere - identified with the protest. 2: A few weeks ago the Israeli court required the Channel 10, a Hebrew TV channel, to apologize to the millionaire [[Sheldon Adelson]] after broadcasting a journalistic investigation that showed him in negative light. The channel tried to claim that the investigation was well-based, but broadcast an apology nevertheless. A few minutes after the apology the news presenter Guy Zohar told the viewers that he quits his position in Channel 10 in response to the events; in addition, the news bulletin ended with blank credits list. The whole thing took about 30 seconds and received wide attention iring the few days after that. 3: Is this Italian law proposal as bad as a murder of a journalist? As bad as a court-forced TV apology? Maybe it is and maybe it is not. I know too little about this affair to state an opinion here; I am just giving a couple of cross-cultural points of comparison. -- Amir _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
