[Advocacy Advisors] Italian Wikipedia community discussing defamation bill

[Pierre-Carl Langlais]

I,

I have just written a general account of this second italian « strike  
» on my French wikipedian blog : http://wikitrekk.blogspot.fr/2012/10/remake-italien.html

Pierre-Carl Langlais aka Alexander Doria

> That banner is live, i believe.
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> Philippe Beaudette
> Director, Community Advocacy
> Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
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> 415-839-6885, x 6643
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> philippe at wikimedia.org
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>
> On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 12:15 PM, Stephen LaPorte
> <slaporte at wikimedia.org> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> The Italian Senate is debating the defamation bill that the Italian
>> Wikipedia community previously protested. The community is  
>> discussing their
>> response here:
>> http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bar/Discussioni/Oggi_il_Senato_vota_su_diffamazione_e_diritto_all%27oblio
>>
>> Here is a Google translation of some proposed banner text:
>>
>> Dear readers,
>>
>> once again the independence of Wikipedia is under threat.
>>
>> In these hours, the Italian Senate is debating a bill on defamation  
>> ( DDL n.
>> 3491 ) which, if approved, would require each site (including  
>> Wikipedia) the
>> correction or deletion of your content on simple request those who
>> considered damaging to their image or their privacy, and provides  
>> for the
>> criminal conviction and fines of up to € 100,000 in the case of  
>> failure to
>> remove. Similar initiatives are not new , but this time their  
>> approval seems
>> imminent.
>>
>> Wikipedia recognizes the right to the protection of the reputation  
>> of each
>> and volunteers that contribute for free already strive daily to  
>> ensure it.
>> The approval of this standard, however, be obliged to alter the  
>> content
>> regardless of their veracity . Such a requirement would distort the
>> fundamental principles of Wikipedia, would be an unacceptable  
>> restriction of
>> its autonomy and a grave threat to the activity of its 15 million  
>> volunteers
>> around the world, who would be inclined to stop dealing with  
>> specific topics
>> or characters, even only "no problems."
>>
>> Wikipedia is the largest collective work in the history of the  
>> human race in
>> 12 years has become part of the habits of millions of Internet  
>> users in
>> search of a knowledge-neutral, free and above all free. The Italian  
>> edition
>> has almost a million entries, receiving 16 million visits every  
>> day, but
>> this rule may obscure them forever.
>>
>> The Encyclopedia is the heritage of all. We will not allow it  
>> disappears.
>>
>>
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