On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 12:06 PM, Russavia <russavia.wikipedia(a)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%…
[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-1…