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Palestinians Counter Israeli Editing Group
in Wikipedia Battle
28/08/2010 04:31:03 PM GMT
After a rightist group opened the first-ever Zionist editing group aimed
at defending Israel on Wikipedia, a Palestinian organization plans to create
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After a rightist group opened the first-ever Zionist editing group aimed
at defending Israel on Wikipedia, a Palestinian organization plans to create
its own Wikipedia editing program.
Palestinian Journalists Syndicate head Abdul Nasser An-Najjar told the
Bethlehem-based Ma’an news agency that his organization plans to set up
editing groups to counter attempts to present Israel's view on Wikipedia. He
urged the Palestinian Authority to take part in the initiative.
An-Najjar warned that the next regional war would be a “media war,â€
adding that online information on the Israeli-_Arab_
(http://www.alarabiya.com/) conflict shapes world opinion.
Last week the Yesha Council and the Yisrael Sheli (My Israel) organization
opened a course to address the problem of what it referred to as pro-Arab
bias on Wikipedia. In a one-day seminar, lecturers taught dozens of
participants how to ensure that Israel's view is presented on the online
encyclopedia.
Ayelet Shaked of Yisrael Sheli told the Guardian that the problem is that
online, pro-Israeli activists are vastly outnumbered by pro-Palestinian
voices. "We don't want to give this arena to the other side," she said. "But
we are so few and they are so many. People in the US and Europe never hear
about Israel's side, with all the correct arguments and explanations."
Shaked said the Israeli government is "not doing a very good job" of
explaining Israel to the world.
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