[Foundation-l] Blackout at Italian Wikipedia

[Theo10011]

On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 1:35 AM, Thomas Morton
<morton.thomas at googlemail.com>wrote:

> This is going to be a PR nightmare :-s
>
> Tom Morton
>
> On 4 Oct 2011, at 20:58, Aaron Adrignola <aaron.adrignola at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Whoever has locked out access to it.wikipedia.org should be immediately
> > desysopped under emergency procedures.  This site is run by the Wikimedia
> > Foundation and I've seen no authorization by the WMF for the vandalism of
> > one of its websites.
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The IRC channels are going insane because of this. This is likely to lead to
a lot of PR, does WMF have a position on this?

Theo