I,
I have just written a general account of this second italian « strike
» on my French wikipedian blog :
That banner is live, i believe.
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Philippe Beaudette
Director, Community Advocacy
Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
415-839-6885, x 6643
philippe(a)wikimedia.org
On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 12:15 PM, Stephen LaPorte
<slaporte(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Hello,
The Italian Senate is debating the defamation bill that the Italian
Wikipedia community previously protested. The community is
discussing their
response here:
http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bar/Discussioni/Oggi_il_Senato_vota_…
Here is a Google translation of some proposed banner text:
Dear readers,
once again the independence of Wikipedia is under threat.
In these hours, the Italian Senate is debating a bill on defamation
( DDL n.
3491 ) which, if approved, would require each site (including
Wikipedia) the
correction or deletion of your content on simple request those who
considered damaging to their image or their privacy, and provides
for the
criminal conviction and fines of up to € 100,000 in the case of
failure to
remove. Similar initiatives are not new , but this time their
approval seems
imminent.
Wikipedia recognizes the right to the protection of the reputation
of each
and volunteers that contribute for free already strive daily to
ensure it.
The approval of this standard, however, be obliged to alter the
content
regardless of their veracity . Such a requirement would distort the
fundamental principles of Wikipedia, would be an unacceptable
restriction of
its autonomy and a grave threat to the activity of its 15 million
volunteers
around the world, who would be inclined to stop dealing with
specific topics
or characters, even only "no problems."
Wikipedia is the largest collective work in the history of the
human race in
12 years has become part of the habits of millions of Internet
users in
search of a knowledge-neutral, free and above all free. The Italian
edition
has almost a million entries, receiving 16 million visits every
day, but
this rule may obscure them forever.
The Encyclopedia is the heritage of all. We will not allow it
disappears.
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