Steve Block wrote:
I mean, taking it a step further, although Wikimedia may be exempt from a writ in the UK courts, if one was to aimed at Wikimedia from the UK courts with editors named on the suit, the best recourse from my reading of the law is that courts allow a full apology, retraction and some sort of small financial settlement rather than have a lawsuit. Would Wikimedia be happy to comply with that even though it is likely exempt from the suit itself?
Apologies and retractions from whom? If I make an alegedly libellous statement Wikimedia the mechanisms are certainly there to remove such statements from the site, but that doesn't mean that I have personally apologized or retracted or agreed to an out of court financial settlement. It can only speak on behalf of the organization as a whole.
Basically, I am asking whether the policy is shoot libel on sight.
That's an over-generalization. It may not be clear that a particular statement is libelous.
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