[Wikimediaindia-l] Blocked Wikipedia Page :: Indian Internet Censorship

[Ashwin Baindur]

Thank you for an intimate analysis on en:WP. Imho this may kindly be posted
as an op-ed piece in WikiPatrika.

We have no idea exactly how many Indian editors are there on English
Wikipedia. Is there any way that the WMF can analyse edits based on ip
addresses to give us some kind of an estimation?

Warm regards,

Ashwin Baindur
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On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 2:10 AM, Srikanth Lakshmanan <srik.lak at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I was going through the "CIS analysis on DIT response to RTI on blocking"
> [1] and found a mention of Sukhbir Singh Badal[2] article was on block
> list by DIT on  11.08.2010 by Principal Secretary to Govt. of Punjab.[3]
> There is no block currently on the page(atleast by my ISP).
>
> I just did some quick look on history on the page.I could find loads on
> BLP tags being hit particularly with severe edit activity around Oct
> 2010,with some targeted activity by a single UK based IP editor and many
> other anons editing mainly on corruption charges.The same IP user also tried
> blanking the page(possibly legally or otherwise threatened else why would
> someone adding charges against a person blank the page?) more than once and
> those edits were reverted much like any other page blanking. Interestingly
> there was nothing apart from templates by bots on the talk page. So this was
> a pure case of party crook editors fighting each other, and not even like
> what happens on the caste articles(much worse!).
>
> Leaving aside the censorship, since I am not bothered about it much, this
> episode suggests more attention is required for WP:INDIA project and lack of
> enough volunteers to maintain a large article base of 1.5 lakh+ pages. Yet
> another case exposing the "English Wikipedia Community" in India which IMHO
> is not doing so well when compared to few other Indic communities. About
> time we realize and move from the popular opinion that Indic communities are
> the only malnutrition-ed children and English Wikipedia is hale and healthy.
>
> There are people running around proposing Policy guidelines specific to
> India (like a guideline for caste, much like BLP) and whole lot of things to
> break the "so called" systemic bias. I dont subscribe to that view, but
> wondering what can we do help make English Wikipedia a healthy child in
> India.
>
> [1]
> http://www.cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/analysis-dit-response-2nd-rti-blocking
> [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukhbir_Singh_Badal
> [3]
> http://www.cis-india.org/internet-governance/dit-response-2nd-rti-blocking
>
> --
> Regards
> Srikanth.L
>
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