[Foundation-l] Wikimania and the Muhammad pix

Chad innocentkiller at gmail.com
Tue Feb 19 20:23:45 UTC 2008


I believe it's the latter, and I too wonder what repercussions there might
be for our Iranian Wikipedians.

-Chad

On Feb 19, 2008 3:08 PM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 19/02/2008, daniwo59 at aol.com <daniwo59 at aol.com> wrote:
> > Jokes aside on this mistake, there is a Farsi Wikipedia, and there are
> > Wikipedians in Iran. Has anyone considered the possible impact that this could
> > have on them?
>
> I guess what impact it has on them is up to them. If they don't want
> to be involved in a project that has pictures of Muhammad, then they
> can leave, it's their choice. Of course, they could simply avoid those
> few articles and work on less controversial parts of the project.
>
> Unless you're suggestion there might be retaliatory action taken
> against them, in which case I don't know enough about the situation to
> comment.
>
>
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