I'm sorry, my bad.
Aubrey
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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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