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<DIV>Would the WMF itself be liable under this new law for content that editors
had published on Italian Wikipedia? I don’t read Italian but from the sound of
the information at <A
title=http://www.gazzettadelsud.it/news/english/19256/Italy-s-proposed-libel-law-meets-strong-media-opposition.html
href="http://www.gazzettadelsud.it/news/english/19256/Italy-s-proposed-libel-law-meets-strong-media-opposition.html">http://www.gazzettadelsud.it/news/english/19256/Italy-s-proposed-libel-law-meets-strong-media-opposition.html</A>
it sounds like the WMF in addition to editors could be liable. If this is the
case then WMF itself may want to get involved.</DIV>
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<DIV>Pine</DIV>
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=thehelpfulonewiki@gmail.com
href="mailto:thehelpfulonewiki@gmail.com">Thehelpfulone</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, 03 November, 2012 06:10</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=advocacy_advisors@lists.wikimedia.org
href="mailto:advocacy_advisors@lists.wikimedia.org">Advocacy Advisory Group for
WMF LCA</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Advocacy Advisors] Italian Wikipedia community
discussing defamation bill</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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is now a further plea at the Wikimedia Forum (on Meta-Wiki): <A
href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Forum#it.wiki_in_trouble.2C_once_again.2C_this_time_is_worse_than_last_year">https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Forum#it.wiki_in_trouble.2C_once_again.2C_this_time_is_worse_than_last_year</A>.
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<DIV class=gmail_extra>-- <BR>Thehelpfulone
<DIV><A href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Thehelpfulone"
target=_blank>http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Thehelpfulone</A></DIV>
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<DIV class=gmail_quote>On 25 October 2012 00:32, Pierre-Carl Langlais <SPAN
dir=ltr><<A href="mailto:pierre-carl.langlais@orange.fr"
target=_blank>pierre-carl.langlais@orange.fr</A>></SPAN> wrote:<BR>
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class=gmail_quote><BR>I,<BR><BR>I have just written a general account of this
second italian « strike » on my French wikipedian blog : <A
href="http://wikitrekk.blogspot.fr/2012/10/remake-italien.html"
target=_blank>http://wikitrekk.blogspot.fr/<U></U>2012/10/remake-italien.html</A><BR><BR>Pierre-Carl
Langlais aka Alexander Doria
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class=gmail_quote>That banner is live, i
believe.<BR>___________________<BR>Philippe Beaudette<BR>Director, Community
Advocacy<BR>Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.<BR><BR>415-839-6885, x 6643<BR><BR><A
href="mailto:philippe@wikimedia.org"
target=_blank>philippe@wikimedia.org</A><BR><BR><BR>On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at
12:15 PM, Stephen LaPorte<BR><<A href="mailto:slaporte@wikimedia.org"
target=_blank>slaporte@wikimedia.org</A>> wrote:<BR>
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class=gmail_quote>Hello,<BR><BR>The Italian Senate is debating the
defamation bill that the Italian<BR>Wikipedia community previously
protested. The community is discussing their<BR>response here:<BR><A
href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bar/Discussioni/Oggi_il_Senato_vota_su_diffamazione_e_diritto_all%27oblio"
target=_blank>http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/<U></U>Wikipedia:Bar/Discussioni/<U></U>Oggi_il_Senato_vota_su_<U></U>diffamazione_e_diritto_all%<U></U>27oblio</A><BR><BR>Here
is a Google translation of some proposed banner text:<BR><BR>Dear
readers,<BR><BR>once again the independence of Wikipedia is under
threat.<BR><BR>In these hours, the Italian Senate is debating a bill on
defamation ( DDL n.<BR>3491 ) which, if approved, would require each site
(including Wikipedia) the<BR>correction or deletion of your content on
simple request those who<BR>considered damaging to their image or their
privacy, and provides for the<BR>criminal conviction and fines of up to €
100,000 in the case of failure to<BR>remove. Similar initiatives are not
new , but this time their approval seems<BR>imminent.<BR><BR>Wikipedia
recognizes the right to the protection of the reputation of each<BR>and
volunteers that contribute for free already strive daily to ensure
it.<BR>The approval of this standard, however, be obliged to alter the
content<BR>regardless of their veracity . Such a requirement would distort
the<BR>fundamental principles of Wikipedia, would be an unacceptable
restriction of<BR>its autonomy and a grave threat to the activity of its
15 million volunteers<BR>around the world, who would be inclined to stop
dealing with specific topics<BR>or characters, even only "no
problems."<BR><BR>Wikipedia is the largest collective work in the history
of the human race in<BR>12 years has become part of the habits of millions
of Internet users in<BR>search of a knowledge-neutral, free and above all
free. The Italian edition<BR>has almost a million entries, receiving 16
million visits every day, but<BR>this rule may obscure them
forever.<BR><BR>The Encyclopedia is the heritage of all. We will not allow
it
disappears.<BR><BR><BR>______________________________<U></U>_________________<BR></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV></DIV>
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