Nikhil,
While I would love to agree with you, given the turn legislation has been taking in India (e.g. the law governing blogs), I think free communities like Wikipedia and Openstreetmap stand a serious risk at the hands of those who value 'national security', which unfortunately is the perfect way to appeal to the masses and pass Orwellian legislations.
I would not take this lightly at all. A cabinet minister making such a stupid, uninformed statement is not acceptable at all. Its against the basic tenets of freedom.
Cheers, Shalabh
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 9:00 PM, Nikhil Sheth nikhil.js@gmail.com wrote:
Honestly, I don't see any reason to quiver.
We should thank good'ol Moily for accidentally publicizing wikipedia at his own expense which I'm sure all his political opponents are going to keep using till the end of his days. He's taken wikipedia now to a much larger swathe of the Indian population - more than any number we could have reached out to - at least now a lot more people know there is such a thing called wikipedia!
India hasn't banned or attacked wikileaks yet as I last remembered; rather the powers that be seem to running scared because of it. In the current scenario where scam after scam is tumbling out, I have seen a greater respect for groups like wikileaks among whoever knows about it; and lesser respect for all those who lash out at it.
In all the conundrum with wikileaks in recent months, poor wikipedia had for all practical reasons gone into obscurity owing to prefix-hijack. Now it suddenly looks like it's back in the game - there's no such thing as bad publicity, after all!
So I'd make light of the matter. Why be afraid of those who are afraid of the truth? If anybody raises anything, tell them fair and square that a member of their country's parliament screwed up.
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On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 5:28 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan < rsrikanth05@gmail.com> wrote:
I agree with Srikanth. A simple notive on Meta [as I noticed] isn't enough. We NEED a gigantic banner, [for NOW] across all Wikimedia Projects. Somebody needs to get in touch with WikiLeaks staff and get the same thing done there. Regards,
On 30 March 2011 14:10, Gautam John gautam@prathambooks.org wrote:
On 30 March 2011 11:49, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik.lak@gmail.com wrote:
Getting sick of this popular "urban legand". Why dont we run a site
notice
banner for "atleast India" alone for 2 months. """ Please Note :-
Wikipedia
and Wikileaks are 2 different things""" and link to a detailed note.
Srikanth, to be fair, I think he does see it as two different things or so the quote implies. What he might incorrectly allude to is a linkage between the two but his criticism of Wikipedia is the model of knowledge creation.
Thank you.
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