Hello, I wonder what the Wikimedia community has to say on the recent WMF decision of censoring parts of a Wikipedia article, and specially giving away private data of 8 Wikipedia editors, including email and IP addresses used by the accounts, to the Portuguese courts, with the stated objective of being given to Cesar do Paço and individually sued by him [1].
And the reasons why the WMF decided to enforce that court decision in a country where they have no assets or representatives. And the position all this leaves all of us who are editing from Portugal, who wouldn't be able to trust the WMF anymore to keep safe our private data. And eventually also the data of who is editing from the US and other places, since now we know that the WMF will for sure deliver what they see fit about us to the courts, even when nothing visible indicates they actually need to do that, as happened in this case. Also alarming is the reason why the last appeal was promptly dismissed by the court, according to the press: "*In Ruling no. 282/2025, with Justice Rui Guerra da Fonseca as the reporting judge, it is considered clear that the issue of constitutionality was not raised in a procedurally appropriate manner by the Wikimedia Foundation. Therefore, the Constitutional Court decides to dismiss the complaint, not to take cognizance of the subject matter of the appeal, and to order the claimant to pay the legal costs of the proceedings.*" [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(WMF)#Office_action:_Removals_on_the_article_Caesar_DePa%C3%A7o [2] https://www.dn.pt/pol%C3%ADtica/tribunal-constitucional-recusa-recurso-da-wikipedia-contra-c%C3%A9sar-do-pa%C3%A7o-2 Best, Paulo
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