2008/12/13 Jimmy Wales <[email protected]>: > I would recommend that Russian Wikipedia adopt a policy similar to > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:USERBOXES#Content_restrictions > > ># Userboxes must not be inflammatory or divisive. > ># Wikipedia is not an appropriate place for propaganda, advocacy, or > >recruitment of any kind, commercial, political, religious, or > >otherwise, opinion pieces on current affairs or politics, > >self-promotion, or advertising. > > I would also note that the sorts of people who deny the Holocaust are > generally the sorts of people who ought to be blocked on sight from > editing Wikipedia. > > --Jimbo
That would involve blocking a significant chunk of our potential Arab editors. Holocaust denial has fairly popular in certain parts of the world. POV about Israel is a greater problem than normal in our various Islamic dominated languages. -- geni _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
