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On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 9:25 AM, Andrea Zanni <zanni.andrea84(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Date of the article says 02 Aug 2012.
Why is this relevant now on this list?
Aubrey
On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 9:57 AM, Toby Dollmann <toby.dollmann(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Why ?
Have you forgotten Section 230 of Communications Decency Act ?
Toby
On 1/11/15, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com> wrote:
can someone shut this guy up?
Thanks,
GerardM
On 11 January 2015 at 07:37, Toby Dollmann <toby.dollmann(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
>
>
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/wikipedia/9447161/Wikipedia-charity-c…
>
> Wikipedia charity chairman resigns after pornography row
>
> The chairman of the charity responsible for promoting Wikipedia in
> Britain has resigned after he was banned from editing the online
> encyclopaedia, following rows about the inclusion of pornography.
>
> By Christopher Williams, Technology Correspondent
> 3:55PM BST 02 Aug 2012
>
> Ashley van Haeften resigned as chairman of Wikimedia UK today, citing
> concerns the controversy over his ban could cause divisions among
> Wikipedia supporters.
>
> “I have discussed this matter with [Mr van Haeften] this morning,”
> said Jon Davies, the chief executive of the charity, which distributes
> £1m of donations from Wikipedia supporters annually.
>
> “He is keen that there should be no division in the Wikimedia UK
> community over his role as Chair, especially at a time when so many
> great things are being achieved.
>
> “He has therefore resigned as Chair.”
>
> The Telegraph reported this week how Mr van Haeften had been banned
> indefinitely from contributing to the English version of Wikipedia by
> ArbCom, an elected committee of senior editors.
>
>
>
> ArbCom applied the sanction after finding he mounted personal attacks
> on people with concerns about explicit material on Wikipedia,
> including about material he had posted. He was criticised for
> including a “highly inappropriate” link to pornography in the
> biography of a living person.
>
> Wikipedia carries a large quantity of explicit material, despite
> promoting itself as an educational website suitable for
> schoolchildren. Critics such as Larry Sanger, a co-founder of the
> website, and people attacked by Mr van Haeften, have argued for
> filters or age controls to be introduced.
>
> Mr van Haeften, who works as an IT project manager, was also found by
> ArbCom to have violated a series of editing rules, including by using
> multiple accounts to change pages after he had asked for a “clean
> start”.
>
> His resignation follows a call by members of Wikimedia UK for an
> Extraordinary General Meeting to discuss the controversy. They said
> the decision of the charity’s board to keep Mr van Haeften on as
> chairman despite his ban from contributing to Wikipedia “not a
> sufficient response to this situation”.
>
> An EGM could still go ahead, however, as the call was for a vote on a
> resolution “to remove Ashley Van Haeften from the Board of Trustees of
> Wikimedia UK”, not only to strip him of the chairmanship.
>
> “By not resigning as chair immediately after the ArbCom decision was
> announced I am afraid that [Mr van Haeften] made an error which can
> now only be corrected by his resignation from the board altogether,”
> said one Wikimedia UK member.
>
> Mr van Haeften remains on the Wikimedia UK board. A new chairman will
> be elected at a meeting this evening.
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