Hi there,
Hello
Anthere,
It has already been resolved that most likely censorship of the
Kurdish Wikipedia has been by individual netcafes, and not by the
government.
Do you have facts to assert this ?
I did not see anything else than hearsay.
I am astonished how imprecise people are with facts here. After all, we
are all working in an encylopedia, aren't we? Let me explain some things.
1. The aim of my posting was to contact a developer to make sure whether
there IS or IS NOT a fall in the access rate from Turkey to the Kurdish
Wikipedia. I did not call anyone for action and did not propose any
campaings, although of cours I am also thinking about possible measures
once we get the facts straight.
2. I have the statement of a contributer who says he can use wikipedia
from the university, but that a lot of Kurdish websites are blocked in
internet cafes in his town, including the wikipedia. He thinks that
sites are blocked just on a basis of language (containing Kurdish
words), not necessarily intentionally against Wikipedia. I have no
further information about the mechanism used.
3. In his words, this kind of censorship is "common" in internet cafes
in Turkey. Most contributers to ku: who write from Turkey (not so many,
anyway) do not write from internet cafes.
4. concerning the dmoz case: the slashdot news was badly translated and
full of mistakes. The guy did NOT edit the Kurdish, but the Turkish
DMOZ, in the category: society / ethnical groups / kurds. In that group
there is no group concerning the PKK, all entries he edited were about
Kurdish culture. And, yes, he was sentenced to 10 months in prison.
Best wishes,
Erdal