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