Honestly, I don&#39;t see any reason to quiver.<br><br>We should thank good&#39;ol Moily for accidentally publicizing wikipedia at his own expense which I&#39;m sure all his political opponents are going to keep using till the end of his days. He&#39;s taken wikipedia now to a much larger swathe of the Indian population - more than any number we could have reached out to - at least now a lot more people know there is such a thing called wikipedia!<br>

<br>India hasn&#39;t banned or attacked wikileaks yet as I last remembered; rather the powers that be seem to running scared because of it. In the current scenario where scam after scam is tumbling out, I have seen a greater respect for groups like wikileaks among whoever knows about it; and lesser respect for all those who lash out at it.<br>

<br>In all the conundrum with wikileaks in recent months, poor wikipedia had for all practical reasons gone into obscurity owing to prefix-hijack. Now it suddenly looks like it&#39;s back in the game - there&#39;s no such thing as bad publicity, after all!<br>

<br>So I&#39;d make light of the matter. Why be afraid of those who are afraid of the truth? If anybody raises anything, tell them fair and square that a member of their country&#39;s parliament screwed up.<br><br><br>Cheers,<br>

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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 5:28 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:rsrikanth05@gmail.com">rsrikanth05@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">

I agree with Srikanth. A simple notive on Meta [as I noticed] isn&#39;t enough. We NEED a gigantic banner, [for NOW] across all Wikimedia Projects.<br>Somebody needs to get in touch with WikiLeaks staff and get the same thing done there. <br>


Regards,<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 30 March 2011 14:10, Gautam John <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:gautam@prathambooks.org" target="_blank">gautam@prathambooks.org</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>

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<div>On 30 March 2011 11:49, Srikanth Lakshmanan &lt;<a href="mailto:srik.lak@gmail.com" target="_blank">srik.lak@gmail.com</a>&gt; wrote:<br>
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&gt; Getting sick of this popular &quot;urban legand&quot;. Why dont we run a site notice<br>
&gt; banner for &quot;atleast India&quot; alone for 2 months. &quot;&quot;&quot; Please Note :- Wikipedia<br>
&gt; and Wikileaks are 2 different things&quot;&quot;&quot; and link to a detailed note.<br>
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</div>Srikanth, to be fair, I think he does see it as two different things<br>
or so the quote implies. What he might incorrectly allude to is a<br>
linkage between the two but his criticism of Wikipedia is the model of<br>
knowledge creation.<br>
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Thank you.<br>
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Best,<br>
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