In case y'all missed this:
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From: "PRIVACY Forum mailing list" privacy@vortex.com To: privacy-list@vortex.com Sent: Saturday, April 6, 2013 3:10:01 PM Subject: [ PRIVACY Forum ] French homeland intelligence threatens a volunteer sysop to delete a Wikipedia Article French homeland intelligence threatens a volunteer sysop to delete a Wikipedia Article
http://j.mp/16C8Cxn (Wikimedia France)
"Unhappy with the Foundation's answer, the DCRI summoned a Wikipedia volunteer in their offices on April 4th. This volunteer, which was one of those having access to the tools that allow the deletion of pages, was forced to delete the article while in the DCRI offices, on the understanding that he would have been held in custody and prosecuted if he did not comply. Under pressure, he had no other choice than to delete the article, despite explaining to the DCRI this is not how Wikipedia works. He warned the other sysops that trying to undelete the article would engage their responsability before the law. This volunteer had no link with that article, having never edited it and not even knowing of its existence before entering the DCRI offices. He was chosen and summoned because he was easily identifiable, given his regular promotional actions of Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects in France."
The return of "Vichy France" mentalities, apparently.
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On Apr 6, 2013 9:05 PM, "Jay Ashworth" jra@baylink.com wrote:
In case y'all missed this:
Subject: [ PRIVACY Forum ] French homeland intelligence threatens a
volunteer sysop to delete a Wikipedia Article
French homeland intelligence threatens a volunteer sysop to delete a Wikipedia Article
There's at least one wikimedia-l thread on this and I don't see any wikitech relevance.
-Jeremy
On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 7:02 PM, Jeremy Baron jeremy@tuxmachine.com wrote:
On Apr 6, 2013 9:05 PM, "Jay Ashworth" jra@baylink.com wrote:
In case y'all missed this:
Subject: [ PRIVACY Forum ] French homeland intelligence threatens a
volunteer sysop to delete a Wikipedia Article
French homeland intelligence threatens a volunteer sysop to delete a Wikipedia Article
There's at least one wikimedia-l thread on this and I don't see any wikitech relevance.
Technical measures to prevent this could be interesting though. Requiring that actions like delete be first nominated by another admin in a different jurisdiction could be an interesting feature, although probably totally impractical. If other people have ideas, I wouldn't mind hearing them.
On 8 April 2013 18:21, Chris Steipp csteipp@wikimedia.org wrote:
Technical measures to prevent this could be interesting though. Requiring that actions like delete be first nominated by another admin in a different jurisdiction could be an interesting feature, although probably totally impractical. If other people have ideas, I wouldn't mind hearing them.
I think it is rare enough to just deal with on a case-by-case basis. It isn't hard to revert a deletion.
Not that it's wikitech related, but please tell me the article was undeleted.
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On Mon, 08 Apr 2013 19:33:01 +0200, Tyler Romeo tylerromeo@gmail.com wrote:
Not that it's wikitech related, but please tell me the article was undeleted.
It was, and I think it was the most viewed one on fr.wiki yesterday (or two days ago).
On 8 April 2013 18:33, Tyler Romeo tylerromeo@gmail.com wrote:
Not that it's wikitech related, but please tell me the article was undeleted.
Undeleted and then promptly translated into a dozen new languages!
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