Note that the first link in the mail sent by Paulo contains not only an announcement, but also a pretty extensive and ongoing community discussion, as well as additional comments on the matter by the legal.
Best Yaroslav On Wed, Aug 6, 2025 at 11:45 AM Paulo Santos Perneta < [email protected]> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list -- [email protected], guidelines > at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > Public archives at > https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/message/AQOLYQLXGWY2F5GXELGGBK64XWG7N5KW/ > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
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