[Foundation-l] wikipedia.de shut down

[Ian A. Holton]

The controversy was about mentioning his past in the former East German
Stasi - something he had not told the truth about to the general public
during the election (according to the Wikipedia article and the sources
named, which amongst others is Der Spiegel). The information, and sources,
seem all very reliable and pass all criteria for inclusion on Wikipedia.

Techcrunch[1] also mentions claims of threats against ex-boyfriends - I
couldn't find any when I checked this morning, so they might have been
removed in accordance with policy.

This isn't the first time the German chapter has had an interim injunction
issued against them[2], but everytime the matter has been resolved in a
professional manner and the media have been very pro-Wiki.[3][4]

Ian
[[User:Poeloq]]

[1]
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/11/16/german-politician-blocks-local-wikipedia/
[2] http://www.toytowngermany.com/lofi/index.php/t28622.html
[3] http://www.edri.org/edrigram/number4.2/wikipedia
[4] http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/06/02/09/1323220.shtml



On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 9:50 PM, effe iets anders
<effeietsanders at gmail.com>wrote:

> for the interested: *Keine weiteren juristischen Schritte gegen Wikipedia*
> : http://www.lutz-heilmann.info/
>
> 2008/11/16 Magnus Manske <magnusmanske at googlemail.com>
>
> > On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 1:21 PM, Bryan Tong Minh
> > <bryan.tongminh at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Apparently the German portal on wikipedia.de has been shut down after
> > > a legal case. Is there any more information on this?
> > > http://www.wikipedia.de/
> >
> > Apparently, some German communist politician was angry about something
> > in "his" article, so he got a court order to prevent forwarding from
> > wikipedia.de to de.wikipedia.org.
> >
> > On his web page, above politician now says he won't proceed further
> > against the German chapter (who owns wikipedia.de), which might mean
> > the forwarding can be reestablished soon.
> >
> > Magnus
> >
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