[Foundation-l] Blanking a Wikipedia, a very bad idea

Milos Rancic millosh at gmail.com
Tue Oct 4 21:07:13 UTC 2011


On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 22:58, Mathias Schindler
<mathias.schindler at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 22:55, M. Williamson <node.ue at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Another important point here is that Wikipedia is an international project;
>
> No, this is not another important point, this is exactly my point. Is
> the Kiribati based community (or a part of it) of Wikipedians allowed
> to block en.wikipedia.org for x hours because a new Kiribatian (sp?)
> media law might come?

So, you think that it is reasonable that Italian Wikipedia lays on
Italian speaking community from Kiribati?

If this law passes, the most reasonable choice of every editor of
Italian Wikipedia would be to abandon it.



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