[Foundation-l] Steward elections: summary, week one

[Yaroslav M. Blanter]

> For a western government the cost of the PR mess is unlikely to
> outweigh any benefits. There are also various other issues that mean
> that such interference is unlikely (the CIA legally can't touch
> wikipedia since it is US based and I doubt any other intelligence
> agency wants to annoy the US).
>
> So any attack from western countries is going to have to come through
> fairly open legal means. Court orders and the like. Court orders tend
> to be public which gives us a chance to react before the problem
> rather than after.
>

Actually, I am not sure how this interference could look like. Removing
unsourced material? Well, everybody can remove unsourced material, I am
doing it on a daily basis. Removing sourced material? This will be
reverted within minutes. I only see access to confidential information and
subsequenct publication of this information as a potential threat. But
then I guess there alre already checkusers on  fa.wp?

Cheers
Yaroslav