(Appears that I mispelled "informashion" in the subject.)
Well, you correctly mention China and its quite proper to focus a great deal of energy on their restrictions on information and communication. (Do they block Wikipedia because of communication or information reasons?). In that regard, the esteemed founder took a wisely netural and non-provocative course. In a country where there is no established freedom of speech, it may not be polite to assume that arguements based on local free speech concepts are valid over there. The UK however has a substantial English-speaking population, and likewise a tradition of emulating and deferring to American concepts of personal liberty etc. The current case is of course an important and interesting anomaly, and its a good thing to see that Wikipedias users have used WP:ITN to properly feature an important story that American media has left alone, and which UK media lack the liberty to properly investigate.
Certainly I think the issue is best targeted to Wikisource, and I listed a request at Talk:Main Page to put the banner up. Im not being a hard on about it - I think its appropriate that it generate discussion, and it may be that as far as Public domain documents go, the Al Jazeera bombing memo might just be the most interesting source document in the world right now. IAC it would be nice to define where the community line ends, between what Jimbo may mutter in the field, and what people actually think.
Stevertigo Voting is only evil if its rigged
--- geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
On 11/28/05, stevertigo vertigosteve@yahoo.com wrote:
Since Wikipedia is supposed to be, like, into this 'freedom of information thing,' (and stuff) and,
like,
that includes our friends even in the UK, who
arent
used to like, living under freedom (and stuff)...
I thought it might not be out of our mandate to
put
this little image ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Illpublish.png
) on
the front page. Maybe even at Wikisource! (Im sure somebody here is an admin there. Ive only got my
meta
priveleges left now - snif!). The image is a
little
white box that says "Ill publish the Al Jazeera
memo."
It may or may not be linked to the Blairwatch.org site.
Anyway, though it might, like, be cheezy to stand
up
for freedom of information (and stuff) though.
Plus,
that might violate Wikisource's NOR policy.
Stevertigo Confused: Is it still called 'Valspeak' when a guy uses it?
The front page of wikipedia should not be used for campianing whatever the cause. We don't have a big notice on the front page when china banned as I fail to see a reason to put up a notice now. -- geni _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@Wikipedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
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