[Foundation-l] and what if...

[geni]

2008/12/13 Jimmy Wales <jwales at wikia-inc.com>:
> I would recommend that Russian Wikipedia adopt a policy similar to
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:USERBOXES#Content_restrictions
>
>  ># Userboxes must not be inflammatory or divisive.
>  ># Wikipedia is not an appropriate place for propaganda, advocacy, or
>  >recruitment of any kind, commercial, political, religious, or
>  >otherwise, opinion pieces on current affairs or politics,
>  >self-promotion, or advertising.
>
> I would also note that the sorts of people who deny the Holocaust are
> generally the sorts of people who ought to be blocked on sight from
> editing Wikipedia.
>
> --Jimbo

That would involve blocking a significant chunk of our potential Arab
editors. Holocaust denial has fairly popular in certain parts of the
world. POV about Israel is a greater problem than normal in our
various Islamic dominated languages.




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geni