On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 12:06 PM, Russavia russavia.wikipedia@gmail.com wrote:
To make matters a little worse, the US House of Representatives IP has taken to vandalising the Russian Wikipedia article for the Russian national anthem,[5] replacing sheet music for the anthem with the sheet music for Putin -- khuilo (Putin is a dickhead).[6]
Question to the masses, should the WMF refund the $20 donation made to it?
Russavia
[1] http://www.webcitation.org/6RTt5jM9U [2] https://twitter.com/congressedits/status/492027099499462657 [3] http://www.webcitation.org/6RTtO0JMP [4] http://whatismyipaddress.com/ip/143.231.249.138 [5] https://ru.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%D0%93%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%BD_%D0%A0%D... [6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putin_khuilo!
Even more worse, the Kremlin is using the English Wikipedia to support a misinformation campaign around the shoot down of MH17 by Russian separatists in Ukraine.[1] Thankfully we have these new watchdog Twitter bots to spot interference by unsophisticated government actors, of both the playfully harmless and the dangerously harmful varieties.
1: http://gawker.com/did-russian-officials-edit-wikipedia-to-back-up-a-bogus-16...