Summary I wrote to Foundation-l:
The bulk of the discussion associated with this thread is actually on WikiEn-l. CAMERA (Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America, www.camera.org) is a pro-Israel lobby group that had some e-mails by members posted to www.electronicintifada.org that showed some of them attempting to organize a campaign on English Wikipedia to influence Israel-related articles. When it was posted to a noticeboard on the English Wikipedia a group of editors and admins worked to connect e-mail addresses to editors and as a result a number of people were banned, indefinitely restricted, etc. There is a current arbitration case at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/CAMERA_lobby... .
Nathan
On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 2:27 PM, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
That's a valid question. Reference to the CAMERA incident has come up a number of times recently as though it were "well known". These incidents come up quite often, but most of us are not involved with them, and have better things to do with our time than to wade through other people's tedious flame wars. I suppose that a capsule summary would be helpful to those of us who aren't involved. If it turns out to be just another case of same-old same-old we can yawn and go back to our normal activities.
Ec
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