<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div style="font-family: verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br> Como podemos ajudar os wikipedistas britânicos?<br><br> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Joaquim Mariano da Costa Neto</span><br><br><br></div><div style="font-family: verdana,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">De:</span></b> Thomas de Souza Buckup <thomasdesouzabuckup@gmail.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Para:</span></b> Mailing list do Capítulo brasileiro da Wikimedia. <wikimediabr-l@lists.wikimedia.org><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Enviadas:</span></b> Segunda-feira, 8 de Dezembro de 2008
11:57:48<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Assunto:</span></b> Re: [Wikimedia Brasil] Donativos<br></font><br><div>Segue abaixo o comunicado de imprensa escrito pela Wikimedia Foundation:</div>
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<div><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Censorship_of_WP_in_the_UK_Dec_2008">http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Censorship_of_WP_in_the_UK_Dec_2008</a></div>
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<div>Censorship in the United Kingdom disenfranchises tens of thousands of Wikipedia editors</div>
<div>Wikimedia Foundation opposes action by internet watchdog group to blacklist encyclopedia<br>article</div>
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<div>San Francisco CA, December 7, 2008: As of December 6, 2008, most Internet users in the<br>United Kingdom no longer have full access to Wikipedia. Due to censorship by the UK<br>self-regulatory agency the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), most UK residents can no<br>
longer edit the volunteer-written encyclopedia, nor can they access an article in it<br>describing a 32-year-old album by German rock group the Scorpions. Wikipedia visitors in<br>the UK have also reported performance issues accessing the site.</div>
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<div>The IWF has confirmed to the Wikimedia Foundation that it has added Wikipedia to its<br>blacklist, which also had the unintended consequence of rendering UK-based internet users<br>unable to edit the encyclopedia, and possibly harming the site's performance inside the UK.</div>
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<div>The IWF says its blacklist is used, on a voluntary basis, by 95% of UK-based residential<br>Internet Service Providers. A statement on the IWF website says it added the Wikipedia<br>article to the blacklist after the article was reported by a user, and an IWF assessment<br>
found it to be "potentially illegal."</div>
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<div>"We have no reason to believe the article, or the image contained in the article, has been<br>held to be illegal in any jurisdiction anywhere in the world," said the Wikimedia<br>Foundation's General Counsel, Mike Godwin. "We believe it's worth noting that the image is<br>
currently visible on Amazon, where the album can be freely purchased by UK residents. It<br>is available on thousands of websites that are accessible to the UK public."</div>
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<div>"The IWF didn't just block the image; it blocked access to the article itself, which<br>discusses the image in a neutral, encyclopedic fashion," said Sue Gardner, Executive<br>Director of the Wikimedia Foundation. "The IWF says its goal is to protect UK citizens,<br>
but I can't see how this action helps to achieve that – and meanwhile, it deprives UK<br>internet users of the ability to access information which should be freely available to<br>everyone. I urge the IWF to remove Wikipedia from its blacklist."</div>
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<div>The Wikimedia Foundation is proud of the work done by its volunteer editors, who have<br>created an encyclopedia which external studies repeatedly validate as equal or better in<br>quality compared with conventional encyclopedias. Wikipedia's editors take care to ensure<br>
the quality of the content of the encyclopedia, and to safeguard the core community values<br>of freedom, independence, and neutrality.</div>
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<div>The Wikimedia Foundation will continue its discussions with IWF to resolve this matter.</div>
<div>Q/A can be found here:<br><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Censorship_of_WP_in_the_UK_Dec_2008QA">http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Censorship_of_WP_in_the_UK_Dec_2008QA</a><br><br><br></div>
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