Re: [Foundation-l] Korean Wikipedians charged with criminal defamation: a potential threat of censorship

2010-12-22 Thread Fred Bauder
This seems to be an example of the trouble that the Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons policy on the English Wikipedia is crafted to avoid, unsourced or poorly sourced negative information about a living person can be removed immediately by any editor. Here, if I'm reading right, it was put

Re: [Foundation-l] Korean Wikipedians charged with criminal defamation: a potential threat of censorship

2010-12-22 Thread Fred Bauder
An example of an actual prosecution: http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/news.aspx?id=20937 Fred This seems to be an example of the trouble that the Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons policy on the English Wikipedia is crafted to avoid, unsourced or poorly sourced negative information

Re: [Foundation-l] Korean Wikipedians charged with criminal defamation: a potential threat of censorship

2010-12-22 Thread ????
On 22/12/2010 04:56, Puzzlet Chung wrote: At most four Korean Wikipedians are charged with defamation of Song Young-gil, the Mayor of Incheon Metropolitan City. Another concern about this incident is that this could happen to every bit of contribution to the project. South Korean government

Re: [Foundation-l] Korean Wikipedians charged with criminal defamation: a potential threat of censorship

2010-12-22 Thread Dan Rosenthal
The Colorado law has been significantly weakened in the past year. See Mink v. Knox, No. 08-1250 (10th Cir. July 19, 2010), slip. op. at 26. -Dan On Dec 22, 2010, at 5:51 AM, Fred Bauder wrote: An example of an actual prosecution: http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/news.aspx?id=20937

Re: [Foundation-l] Korean Wikipedians charged with criminal defamation: a potential threat of censorship

2010-12-22 Thread Ziko van Dijk
Dear colleague Puzzlet, Thank you for passing through the information. Do you already have a large press reaction? And how about writing an English article about the person in question? I may know people who would like to translate into other languages. :-) Kind regards Ziko 2010/12/22 Dan

Re: [Foundation-l] Korean Wikipedians charged with criminal defamation: a potential threat of censorship

2010-12-22 Thread Thomas Dalton
I expect a good lawyer can be found. The WMF might be able to help with that, they have lots of useful contacts. If even the police didn't think there is much of a case, they must stand a very good chance of winning the case. While it will surely be a very stressful and unpleasant experience for

[Foundation-l] Fwd: [WikiX-l] Deadline approaching to get merchandise

2010-12-22 Thread Steven Walling
Cross-posting. Begin forwarded message: From: Steven Walling swall...@wikimedia.org Date: December 22, 2010 4:46:20 PM PST To: wiki...@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [WikiX-l] Deadline approaching to get merchandise Reply-To: Planning for WP 10th anniversary wiki...@lists.wikimedia.org Hi