Lembra algo? ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Tomasz W. Kozłowski &lt;odder.wiki(a)gmail.com&gt; Date: 2013/4/5 Subject: [Wikimedia-l] French intelligency agency forces removal of a Wikipedia article To: Wikimedia Mailing List &lt;wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org&gt; Hi there, I guess you might be interested to hear that Direction Centrale du Renseignement Intérieur (Central Directorate of Interior Intelligence, DCRI), a French intelligence agency that reports directly to the Ministry of the Interior, has apparently forced a French Wikipedia administrator to delete an article that in their opinion—as I understand it—revelead classified information deemed very harmful to the French national defence ("compromission du secret de la Défense nationale"). Interestingly, they contacted the WMF legal team with a request to remove (delete? suppress?) this article a couple of weeks before that, but were refused after failing to provide further information on why the article should be removed (in the words of a Foundation legal counsel). Undounted by that, they approached the said administrator — who operates under his real name, so I guess it was pretty easy to track him — and asked him to delete this article, a request which he obliged. (The article has since been restored by a different administrator). As far as I understand, the version of the article they wanted to have deleted was <https://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=81104004>. I guess that when an intelligence agency asks their citizen to remove information from Wikipedia citing the penal code (article 413-11 of the French penal code in this case), it is something worth sharing (no harm intended). Further reading in English: * <https://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=prev&oldid=91703508> * <https://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=91705235> -- Tomasz W. Kozłowski a.k.a. [[user:odder]] _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l -- Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom) OKFN Brasil - Rede pelo Conhecimento Livre http://br.okfn.org