[WikiEN-l] [Wikimedia-l] Legality under French law of hosting personal details such as race and sexuality in Wikipedia

[John Vandenberg]

If the prose has a citation, someone is has published these details first,
and should have obtained consent.
 On Aug 20, 2012 7:55 AM, "Wyatt Lucas" <darthyutsi1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> What about infoboxes and leads? They must mention ethnicity, religion,
> sexuality, etc. somewhere.
>
> --
> ~~yutsi
> Sent from my iPhone.
>
> On Aug 19, 2012, at 8:27 PM, Andreas Kolbe <jayen466 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I've been told (and have verified) that the French Wikipedia indeed does
> > without categories to mark people as Jewish, LGBT, etc.
> >
> > I actually quite like that approach.
> >
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 7:53 PM, Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org> wrote:
> >
> >> On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 8:21 AM, Andreas Kolbe <jayen466 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>> The question at issue is whether French Wikimedians might be
> individually
> >>> liable for violating French law if they add such categories in
> Wikipedia.
> >>
> >> Seems possible.
> >>
> >> Fortunately, Wikipedia offers both https and the ability to contribute
> >> anonymously, for those who are worried about this sort of thing.
> >>
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