Talvez pudéssemos ajudar se com base numa carta de princípios evoluíssimos
para alguma forma institucional falando em nome da Wikimedia Brasil.
2008/12/8 Joaquim Mariano da Costa Neto <joaquimmariano(a)yahoo.com.br>
Como podemos ajudar os wikipedistas britânicos?
Joaquim Mariano da Costa Neto
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*De:* Thomas de Souza Buckup <thomasdesouzabuckup(a)gmail.com>
*Para:* Mailing list do Capítulo brasileiro da Wikimedia. <
wikimediabr-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
*Enviadas:* Segunda-feira, 8 de Dezembro de 2008 11:57:48
*Assunto:* Re: [Wikimedia Brasil] Donativos
Segue abaixo o comunicado de imprensa escrito pela Wikimedia Foundation:
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Censorship_of_WP_in_the_…
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Censorship in the United Kingdom disenfranchises tens of thousands of
Wikipedia editors
Wikimedia Foundation opposes action by internet watchdog group to blacklist
encyclopedia
article
San Francisco CA, December 7, 2008: As of December 6, 2008, most Internet
users in the
United Kingdom no longer have full access to Wikipedia. Due to censorship
by the UK
self-regulatory agency the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), most UK
residents can no
longer edit the volunteer-written encyclopedia, nor can they access an
article in it
describing a 32-year-old album by German rock group the Scorpions.
Wikipedia visitors in
the UK have also reported performance issues accessing the site.
The IWF has confirmed to the Wikimedia Foundation that it has added
Wikipedia to its
blacklist, which also had the unintended consequence of rendering UK-based
internet users
unable to edit the encyclopedia, and possibly harming the site's
performance inside the UK.
The IWF says its blacklist is used, on a voluntary basis, by 95% of
UK-based residential
Internet Service Providers. A statement on the IWF website says it added
the Wikipedia
article to the blacklist after the article was reported by a user, and an
IWF assessment
found it to be "potentially illegal."
"We have no reason to believe the article, or the image contained in the
article, has been
held to be illegal in any jurisdiction anywhere in the world," said the
Wikimedia
Foundation's General Counsel, Mike Godwin. "We believe it's worth noting
that the image is
currently visible on Amazon, where the album can be freely purchased by UK
residents. It
is available on thousands of websites that are accessible to the UK
public."
"The IWF didn't just block the image; it blocked access to the article
itself, which
discusses the image in a neutral, encyclopedic fashion," said Sue Gardner,
Executive
Director of the Wikimedia Foundation. "The IWF says its goal is to protect
UK citizens,
but I can't see how this action helps to achieve that – and meanwhile, it
deprives UK
internet users of the ability to access information which should be freely
available to
everyone. I urge the IWF to remove Wikipedia from its blacklist."
The Wikimedia Foundation is proud of the work done by its volunteer
editors, who have
created an encyclopedia which external studies repeatedly validate as equal
or better in
quality compared with conventional encyclopedias. Wikipedia's editors take
care to ensure
the quality of the content of the encyclopedia, and to safeguard the core
community values
of freedom, independence, and neutrality.
The Wikimedia Foundation will continue its discussions with IWF to resolve
this matter.
Q/A can be found here:
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Censorship_of_WP_in_the_UK_Dec_2008QA
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