[Foundation-l] [WikiEN-l] Lobby takeover of wikimedia projects, particularly English wikipedia

[Nathan]

The bulk of the discussion associated with this thread is actually on
WikiEn-l. CAMERA (Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in
America, www.camera.org) is a pro-Israel lobby group that had some e-mails
by members posted to www.electronicintifada.org that showed some of them
attempting to organize a campaign on English Wikipedia to influence
Israel-related articles. When it was posted to a noticeboard on the English
Wikipedia a group of editors and admins worked to connect e-mail addresses
to editors and as a result a number of people were banned, indefinitely
restricted, etc. There is a current arbitration case at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/CAMERA_lobbying.


Nathan

On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 9:27 AM, Chad <innocentkiller at gmail.com> wrote:

> Likewise, no clue what you're talking about.
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