FYI ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Isaac Olatunde" reachout2isaac@gmail.com Date: Apr 29, 2017 7:53 PM Subject: [African Wikimedians] Turkish Government Blocked Access to Wikipedia To: "Mailing list for African Wikimedians" < african-wikimedians@lists.wikimedia.org> Cc:

Greetings,

Today, a court sitting in Ankara banned access to Wikipedia. The reason for the ban is not clear but a statement credited to Turkey's communications ministry said " Wikipedia was attempting to run a smear campaign against Turkey ". Well, its seems the ban was imposed following a failed attempt by the government to control Wikipedia's contents.[1]

You may want to contribute to a proposed community's response to the ban. I have provided a link to the draft below.

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/access-wikipedia-blocked-turkey- 47102196 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Response_to_2017_ban_in_Turkey

Best,

Isaac

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