Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Event Support Request
Hey, I am Noopur and I can help with press and media coordination, promotion and volunteering of any other kind. Cheers Noopur On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 10:28 PM, wheredevelsd...@hotmail.com wrote: Cross posting on India/Mumbai/Pune mailing lists Just to follow up on the minutes of Mumbai X - we would like to invite members of the national wikicommunity to come and support WikiConference 2011, Mumbai/Pune. It was felt important that to move forward we need an Event Organising Committee (OC) for the WikiConference and sub-committee members. Kindly note we are not looking for people who just lend their names but people who will actually come forward and put in time and effort in the entire 6 month preceding period. Sub-Committees suggested: •Conference Programming (Includes Themes, Tracks, Keynote Speakers and Scheduling) Deciding the direction this meet should take. •Finance (Includes both budgeting, raising finances and scholarships) People who are either qualified or have experience preferred. Handling finance of such an event •Conference Venue and Catering Coordination of venue and catering booking to helping things move on the floor during the event •Major Events (Attendee Party/Mega Event) Undertaking responsibility of any major events other than actual conference •Press and Media coordination Deciding on a path for media promotion of event, giving interviews, inviting media and taking care of them during the event •Accommodation and Registration Reserving the accommodation, picking people up and making sure they find their accommodation, registering people on the event day. •Promotion and Advertisement There will be a promotion budget which will have to be judiciously used for maximum benefit - again person with experience or qualification preferred. •Technical and IT Running the event site, setting up wifi and other electronic goods, webcast of the event online for those who cannot make it in person •Volunteer On ground. Running around during the event Whoever is interested in being on the OC or any of the sub-committees, kindly write to the Mumbai list (*wikimedia-in-...@lists.wikimedia.org*). Kind Regards, User:AroundTheGlobe ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- Noopur Raval Student Arts and Aesthetics Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi Ph: 9650567690 ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Event Support Request
Hey, I can help out with promotional activity and other activities so long as my physical presence isn't required. Cheers, Srikanth. Sent from my Motorola L9. Please excuse spelling errors. On May 30, 2011 1:22 PM, Noopur noopur.ra...@gmail.com wrote: Hey, I am Noopur and I can help with press and media coordination, promotion and volunteering of any other kind. Cheers Noopur On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 10:28 PM, wheredevelsd...@hotmail.com wrote: Cross posting on India/Mumbai/Pune mailing lists Just to follow up on the minutes of Mumbai ... ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l... -- Noopur Raval Student Arts and Aesthetics Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi Ph: 9650567690 ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
[Wikimediaindia-l] Odia Wikipedia reached 1000 Articles
Agyan Juhara, Odia Wikipedia http://or.wikipedia.org has reached 1000 articleshttp://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:Wpjun1. Odia Wikipedians met and set the targethttp://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:Meetup/Bangalore/Bangalore2of reaching 1000 articles by writing them manually, putting quality time instead of creating one liners stubs/using bots on 2011May22 at Bengaluruhttp://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:Meetup/Bangalore/Bangalore2( http://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:Meetup/Bangalore/Bangalore2) and started the first WikiProject of Odia Wikipedia http://or.wikipedia.org/ ( http://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:Wpjun1 ) which resulted almost 230 articles in a span of 8 days. In the span of this WikProject Odia Wikipedia has seen many good articles in different subjects and most importantly over 140 articleshttp://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AC%AC%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%AD%E0%AC%BE%E0%AC%97:%E0%AC%93%E0%AC%A1%E0%AC%BC%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%86_%E0%AC%B8%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%A8%E0%AD%87%E0%AC%AE%E0%AC%BE_%E0%AC%9C%E0%AC%97%E0%AC%A4by Mrutyunjay Kar http://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Mkar_ritu based on Odia movies, photos of different places, biologically important species and many other topics. Congrats to Mrutyunjay Kar http://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Mkar_ritu for maximum contribution for Odia movies and Srikant Kediahttp://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AC%AC%E0%AD%8D%E0%AD%9F%E0%AC%AC%E0%AC%B9%E0%AC%BE%E0%AC%B0%E0%AC%95%E0%AC%BE%E0%AC%B0%E0%AC%BF:Odisha1for maximum contribution esp for template creation and congrats to all other user who participated in this project and made this a successful one. regards. Shortly Odia Wikipedia is planning for its 5th event and 3rd Wiki Workshop in Bangalore. * ସୁଭପାSubhashishPanigrahi ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ ___ Wikipedia Odia (Oriya) mailing list wikipedia...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-or facebook.com/OdiaWiki Tweet @OdiaWiki * ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Odia Wikipedia reached 1000 Articles
Congratulations Odia Wikipedia... *$**U**∩* http://goo.gl/RoMyo.com http://FirefoxSurya.blogspot.com On 30 May 2011 17:25, Subhashish Panigrahi psubhash...@gmail.com wrote: Agyan Juhara, Odia Wikipedia http://or.wikipedia.org has reached 1000 articleshttp://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:Wpjun1. Odia Wikipedians met and set the targethttp://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:Meetup/Bangalore/Bangalore2of reaching 1000 articles by writing them manually, putting quality time instead of creating one liners stubs/using bots on 2011May22 at Bengaluruhttp://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:Meetup/Bangalore/Bangalore2( http://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:Meetup/Bangalore/Bangalore2) and started the first WikiProject of Odia Wikipedia http://or.wikipedia.org/ ( http://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:Wpjun1 ) which resulted almost 230 articles in a span of 8 days. In the span of this WikProject Odia Wikipedia has seen many good articles in different subjects and most importantly over 140 articleshttp://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AC%AC%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%AD%E0%AC%BE%E0%AC%97:%E0%AC%93%E0%AC%A1%E0%AC%BC%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%86_%E0%AC%B8%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%A8%E0%AD%87%E0%AC%AE%E0%AC%BE_%E0%AC%9C%E0%AC%97%E0%AC%A4by Mrutyunjay Kar http://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Mkar_ritu based on Odia movies, photos of different places, biologically important species and many other topics. Congrats to Mrutyunjay Kar http://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Mkar_ritufor maximum contribution for Odia movies and Srikant Kediahttp://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AC%AC%E0%AD%8D%E0%AD%9F%E0%AC%AC%E0%AC%B9%E0%AC%BE%E0%AC%B0%E0%AC%95%E0%AC%BE%E0%AC%B0%E0%AC%BF:Odisha1for maximum contribution esp for template creation and congrats to all other user who participated in this project and made this a successful one. regards. Shortly Odia Wikipedia is planning for its 5th event and 3rd Wiki Workshop in Bangalore. * ସୁଭପାSubhashishPanigrahi ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ ___ Wikipedia Odia (Oriya) mailing list wikipedia...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-or facebook.com/OdiaWiki Tweet @OdiaWiki * ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Odia Wikipedia reached 1000 Articles
Congratulations to all of you for this marathon effort, Bishakha On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 5:28 PM, Surya Prakash suryasalem2...@gmail.comwrote: Congratulations Odia Wikipedia... *$**U**∩* http://goo.gl/RoMyo.com http://FirefoxSurya.blogspot.com On 30 May 2011 17:25, Subhashish Panigrahi psubhash...@gmail.com wrote: Agyan Juhara, Odia Wikipedia http://or.wikipedia.org has reached 1000 articleshttp://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:Wpjun1. Odia Wikipedians met and set the targethttp://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:Meetup/Bangalore/Bangalore2of reaching 1000 articles by writing them manually, putting quality time instead of creating one liners stubs/using bots on 2011May22 at Bengaluruhttp://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:Meetup/Bangalore/Bangalore2( http://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:Meetup/Bangalore/Bangalore2) and started the first WikiProject of Odia Wikipedia http://or.wikipedia.org/ ( http://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:Wpjun1 ) which resulted almost 230 articles in a span of 8 days. In the span of this WikProject Odia Wikipedia has seen many good articles in different subjects and most importantly over 140 articleshttp://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AC%AC%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%AD%E0%AC%BE%E0%AC%97:%E0%AC%93%E0%AC%A1%E0%AC%BC%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%86_%E0%AC%B8%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%A8%E0%AD%87%E0%AC%AE%E0%AC%BE_%E0%AC%9C%E0%AC%97%E0%AC%A4by Mrutyunjay Kar http://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Mkar_ritu based on Odia movies, photos of different places, biologically important species and many other topics. Congrats to Mrutyunjay Kar http://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Mkar_ritufor maximum contribution for Odia movies and Srikant Kediahttp://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AC%AC%E0%AD%8D%E0%AD%9F%E0%AC%AC%E0%AC%B9%E0%AC%BE%E0%AC%B0%E0%AC%95%E0%AC%BE%E0%AC%B0%E0%AC%BF:Odisha1for maximum contribution esp for template creation and congrats to all other user who participated in this project and made this a successful one. regards. Shortly Odia Wikipedia is planning for its 5th event and 3rd Wiki Workshop in Bangalore. * ସୁଭପାSubhashishPanigrahi ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ ___ Wikipedia Odia (Oriya) mailing list wikipedia...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-or facebook.com/OdiaWiki Tweet @OdiaWiki * ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Odia Wikipedia reached 1000 Articles
On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 7:13 PM, Shiju Alex shijualexonl...@gmail.com wrote: Congrats to Odia wiki community. From a wiki with almost no activism during 2011 March, now Odia wiki community is grown as one of the most vibrant wiki communities of India. Really appreciate the efforts and pain took by few native language speakers like Subhashih, Srikanth, Ashusthosh, Samvidhan Mohanty, and few others. The support received from Professor Dhanada Mishra during the initial stages also require special mention. Looking forward to hear more inspiring news from Odia community. Congrats Odiya team for building a strong wiki community within a short timespan ! Anivar ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Odia Wikipedia reached 1000 Articles
Congratulations! And all the best. I'm sure 1 articles (good ones!) milestone is not far! -- വിക്കനഭി wikkanabhi.wordpress.com flickr.com/photos/abhishek_jacob ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/user:Abhishek_Jacob ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
[Wikimediaindia-l] FirstPost : Wikipedia’s bold bid for World Heritage status
*FirstPost : Wikipedia’s bold bid for World Heritage status* http://www.firstpost.com/ideas/wikipedias-bold-bid-for-world-heritage-status-17462.html *Even by the standards of the dot-com universe, Wikipedia has been an especially bold enterprise. It was bold to hope that many thousands of people would give of their time to build encyclopedia entries in return for not so much as a byline. It was bold to presume that this anonymous community would police itself well enough to create a resource of surprising detail and accuracy. Even its fundraising efforts are nerveless and edgy; last year, Wikipedia tested a banner ad, displayed prominently at the top of every page, that read: “Admit it – without Wikipedia, you never could have finished that report. Click here to keep Wikipedia free for future students.”* * * *This roll-call of audacity notwithstanding, Wikipedia’s latest move may be its boldest yet. A few days ago, a German chapter of the Wikimedia Foundation announced plans to apply for a UNESCO World Heritage label, arguing that the site “is a masterpiece of human creative genius and is also of universal human value”.* * * *In the case of Wikipedia, a World Heritage status would promise a crucial degree of financial solvency and freedom from advertisements. In the pic: Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales. Reuters* *These words weren’t chosen casually; UNESCO insists, as a part of its six criteria for cultural heritage, that the property “represent a masterpiece of human creative genius” and that it exhibit “an important interchange of human values”. For Wikipedia, these two claims are debatable, but when I went through the other four stipulations, I found some remarkable overlaps. Wikipedia can certainly maintain that it “bears a unique… testimony to a cultural tradition”, that it is an “outstanding example of… a technological ensemble” and of “human interaction” with a particular environment, and that it is directly associated with “ideas… of outstanding universal significance”. UNESCO, for its part, has played all this cautiously. “Anyone can apply,” Susan Williams, the head of media relations at UNESCO in Paris, told the New York Times. “But it may have difficulty fulfilling the criteria.”* * * *In the case of Wikipedia, perhaps more than in the case of other UNESCO properties, a World Heritage status would promise a crucial degree of financial solvency and freedom from advertisements. Last November, Jay Walsh, a Wikimedia communications official, mentioned that the foundation’s operating budget for the 2010-2011 fiscal year was slated at $20 million, $16 million of which it hoped to raise through donations – not the most stable of business models. A World Heritage label would makes properties eligible for limited UNESCO funding, but it also makes member nations responsible for keeping these properties in shape.* * * *Wikipedia’s gambit is an odd one: It has to assert that it is vigorously relevant even as it asks to be put on a list that otherwise includes defunct monuments or endangered natural formations. Moreover, it has to redefine – for UNESCO and for us – the very concept of heritage in a digital age. Can a 10-year-old website – housed in fragments on various servers in various countries, present everywhere and nowhere, belonging to everyone and no-one – even be a heritage artifact?* * * *Aditya Dev Sood thinks it can. Sood is the founder of the Center for Knowledge Societies, a New Delhi-based consultancy that works closely in the digital environment. There is, Sood says, a continuity of cultural technology that Wikipedia fits into, and that continuity confers a certain historical relevance upon Wikipedia. He identifies as parts of this lineage the Rosetta Stone – the tablet that helped decipher Egyptian hieroglyphs – and the Antikythera Mechanism, a mechanical computer dating back to around 150 BC. Neither is on UNESCO’s list, but unlike them, Wikipedia fulfills an additional role: It is at the centre of a large, involved community, as a heritage property ought to be.* * * *“My instinct is, it would be facile for Wikipedia to just apply on the basis that there’s nothing else like it,” Sood says. “They need to go beyond that, to say that they are the first real exemplar of the model of free knowledge – a model that is spreading, as our world is Wikifying rapidly.” Indeed, this is what Wikipedia is arguing in its petition which states:* * * *[I]t is not our main objective to meet single UNESCO criteria but to emphasise the project as the greatest ever collection of human knowledge… It is not only a success story in the history of the Internet, but a success story for a paradigm change in the treatment of free knowledge.* * * *There is also the most obvious question of antiquity. The youngest site on the World Heritage list, the Sydney Opera House, is 38 years old, but the ages of most of the others number in the centuries. “In general, the older a site is, the more interesting it is, and the more
[Wikimediaindia-l] [Press] : The Sunday Indian : Internet Hooliganism
The Sunday Indian magazine on its recent cover story heavily bashes Wikipedia, Google etc. The article also features an interview with Jay Walsh, Wikimedia Foundation’s Head of Communications. *Some background : * The publication is supported by Arindam Chaudhuri , Head of IIPM, who was heavily criticized by bloggers for alleged misrepresentations and false advertisements. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Institute_of_Planning_and_Management_advertising_and_blogging_controversy You can read more about the article here : *The Sunday Indian : Internet Hooliganism* http://www.thesundayindian.com/en/story/internet-hooliganism/15181/ ( The article is very huge and hence only few relevant extracts copied here) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Institute_of_Planning_and_Management_advertising_and_blogging_controversy Why internet vandals and slander supporting entities like Google must be criminally prosecuted and made to pay for promoting defamatory links and suggestions, and how the new IT act is a step in the right direction and gives Indians the right to get justice against such vandalism. ...First, as I mentioned earlier, is the wicked anonymity that the web provides to Internet posters, which gives them protection from being identified and prosecuted. Second is the hand-in-hand conspiratorial connivance of Internet companies like search engines, social networking sites, blog site hosts and even ISPs (intermediaries, in summary) that refuse to delete or block out the execrable comments and links and also refuse to confirm the identities of the anon-posters. Google, Wikipedia, Twitter... all of them fall within the same indecent category of companies. Third has been the unfortunate legal protection given till now to such intermediaries, who apparently could not be held responsible for material that others were posting on their websites (for example, in the US, Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act has protected intermediaries from liability for defamatory content posted on their sites, even if they allowed the content to remain despite having been notified about the same). ...But Google is only one side of the story. There are others in the same league and perhaps as worse. One of the infamously notable ones is Wikipedia, which touts itself as the free encyclopaedia that anyone can edit – a metaphor for allowing any anonymous author to post details about any and every topic. And as the Wikipedia link almost always comes on the first page of any search engine's results, the nuisance value Wikipedia and its army of unidentifiable contributors command is immense and as dangerous. Stories of even Wikipedia being taken to court are well known. Recent years have seen temporary bans on Wiki pages from various governments, including the Dutch and German ones. UK’s largest internet service provider banned Wikipedia pages containing child pornography a few months ago. The Australian government has blacklisted Wikipedia pages permanently along with “child porn sites.” University of California professors refuse references to Wikipedia. BusinessWeek has called Wikipedia “awash in controversy.” New York Times, US government’s patents office and various other highly credible entities have official policy documents against Wikipedia. US Senators like Ted Stevens in Alaska have introduced bills to pull Wikipedia out of schools and libraries. The US Appeals Court now has an official ruling against Wikipedia sources being quoted. On April 4, 2009, Financial Times certified Wikipedia as “hilariously unreliable free-for-all.” USA Today’s founding editorial director John Seigenthaler Sr went to the courts when his Wiki biography concocted up that he was connected with the assassinations of both John F. Kennedy and his brother Bobby Kennedy. While Wharton writers confess, “It's unclear how the Wikipedia model will evolve...,” Harvard professors cast more caustic doubts saying, “No, is the short answer here [to whether Wikipedia transfers to a good corporate environment model].” When San Francisco-based Jay Walsh, Wikimedia Foundation’s Head of Communications, was questioned by TSI in May 2011 (read the full interview later in this article) on the ongoing defamation of personalities on Wikipedia, and on the concept of Internet hooliganism, he replied, “Our project strongly supports free speech, but it also represents the power of communities to remove vandalism, protect quality information, and generally respect the importance of having high quality, non-vandalised information. We're proud of that reputation.” In fact, as recently as on May 9, 2011, UK-based billionaire Louis Bacon won a case in a London High Court, to force three websites to reveal the identities of the bloggers who were posting besmirching remarks online. One of these websites was Wikipedia (the two other were WordPress and Denver Post). What entities like Wikipedia, Google, Twitter et al are blatantly overlooking is the fact that
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Press] : The Sunday Indian : Internet Hooliganism
As an editor and a member of the counter vandalism group, I personally find this ignoramus statement by IIPM insulting. Clearly, he has absolutely NO idea, how hard we work on keeping Wikipedia clean. Tell him to go thru the edits made by any Indian editor using Huggle or Lupins Anti Vandal tool. Offtopic matter: Everybody says IIPM is a fraud. Do they even have the moral right to blame us wikipedians? Regards, Rsrikanth05 Sent from my Motorola L9. Please excuse spelling errors. On May 30, 2011 10:11 PM, CherianTinu Abraham tinucher...@gmail.com wrote: The Sunday Indian magazine on its recent cover story heavily bashes Wikipedia, Google etc. The article also features an interview with Jay Walsh, Wikimedia Foundation’s Head of Communications. *Some background : * The publication is supported by Arindam Chaudhuri , Head of IIPM, who was heavily criticized by bloggers for alleged misrepresentations and false advertisements. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Institute_of_Planning_and_Management_advertising_and_blogging_controversy You can read more about the article here : *The Sunday Indian : Internet Hooliganism* http://www.thesundayindian.com/en/story/internet-hooliganism/15181/ ( The article is very huge and hence only few relevant extracts copied here) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Institute_of_Planning_and_Management_advertising_and_blogging_controversy Why internet vandals and slander supporting entities like Google must be criminally prosecuted and made to pay for promoting defamatory links and suggestions, and how the new IT act is a step in the right direction and gives Indians the right to get justice against such vandalism. ...First, as I mentioned earlier, is the wicked anonymity that the web provides to Internet posters, which gives them protection from being identified and prosecuted. Second is the hand-in-hand conspiratorial connivance of Internet companies like search engines, social networking sites, blog site hosts and even ISPs (intermediaries, in summary) that refuse to delete or block out the execrable comments and links and also refuse to confirm the identities of the anon-posters. Google, Wikipedia, Twitter... all of them fall within the same indecent category of companies. Third has been the unfortunate legal protection given till now to such intermediaries, who apparently could not be held responsible for material that others were posting on their websites (for example, in the US, Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act has protected intermediaries from liability for defamatory content posted on their sites, even if they allowed the content to remain despite having been notified about the same). ...But Google is only one side of the story. There are others in the same league and perhaps as worse. One of the infamously notable ones is Wikipedia, which touts itself as the free encyclopaedia that anyone can edit – a metaphor for allowing any anonymous author to post details about any and every topic. And as the Wikipedia link almost always comes on the first page of any search engine's results, the nuisance value Wikipedia and its army of unidentifiable contributors command is immense and as dangerous. Stories of even Wikipedia being taken to court are well known. Recent years have seen temporary bans on Wiki pages from various governments, including the Dutch and German ones. UK’s largest internet service provider banned Wikipedia pages containing child pornography a few months ago. The Australian government has blacklisted Wikipedia pages permanently along with “child porn sites.” University of California professors refuse references to Wikipedia. BusinessWeek has called Wikipedia “awash in controversy.” New York Times, US government’s patents office and various other highly credible entities have official policy documents against Wikipedia. US Senators like Ted Stevens in Alaska have introduced bills to pull Wikipedia out of schools and libraries. The US Appeals Court now has an official ruling against Wikipedia sources being quoted. On April 4, 2009, Financial Times certified Wikipedia as “hilariously unreliable free-for-all.” USA Today’s founding editorial director John Seigenthaler Sr went to the courts when his Wiki biography concocted up that he was connected with the assassinations of both John F. Kennedy and his brother Bobby Kennedy. While Wharton writers confess, “It's unclear how the Wikipedia model will evolve...,” Harvard professors cast more caustic doubts saying, “No, is the short answer here [to whether Wikipedia transfers to a good corporate environment model].” When San Francisco-based Jay Walsh, Wikimedia Foundation’s Head of Communications, was questioned by TSI in May 2011 (read the full interview later in this article) on the ongoing defamation of personalities on Wikipedia, and on the concept of Internet hooliganism, he replied, “Our project strongly supports free speech, but it also represents the power of communities to
[Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia board election is going on...
Please check out... Board elections/2011/en - Metahttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2011 -- Naveen Francis ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
