Hi,
here is a small update.
The preliminary injunction against Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. was
suspended. It is not yet gone but it is currently not preventing
Wikimedia Deutschland from redirecting wikipedia.de to
de.wikipedia.org.
If you read an AP article from today, please be careful. At least in
the first versions, there are some misconceptions in that article.
Wikimedia Deutschland did not pay any fine. There was just a 500 Euro
(~600 US Dollar) deposit.
The dispute is not yet setteled but I am personally confident that the
injunction against Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. will finally be
denied/lifted/eaten by the court in the near future.
The reason of the suspension of the injunction were manyfold:
The injunction was very unprecise (it did not even contain the name of
the person this trouble is all about), so the injunction itself did
not make much sense apart from the "you are forbidden to redirect
wikipedia.de to
de.wikipedia.org). And the injunction was far to
harsh. Shutting down the redirect of 350.000+ pages just because of
one disputed article is not that justified.
So, the blogosphere has also commented on this situation very loud.
There are now a couple of articles in (mostly german) blogs just
containing "The name of Tron was Boris Floricic".
I did not make any statistics but the number of pages in the internet
containing the civil name of Boris seemed to have increased a lot. AP
is quoting someone with the brillian insight that this effect is most
likely not in the intention of the parents who tried to remove the
name from
wikipedia.org.
Here are some English articles I can recomment you for *critical!* reading.
http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/68603
Wikimedia fights the block on its web site due to "Tron" articles
http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/0,1518,396307,00.html
How a Dead Hacker Shut Down Wikipedia Germany
Mathias