Re: [WikiEN-l] Italian Wikipedia

2011-10-07 Thread petr skupa
Hmm, technically you are right, the wikipedia is in US, so its just only the Wikipedians who are in peril. However they would be really under serious pressure. Even now, without any specialised law, Italian Wikipedia had some specifics fighting against lawsuite imposed by politician (and his son)

[WikiEN-l] Italian Wikipedia

2011-10-05 Thread Daniel R. Tobias
There have been a bunch of items in my Twitter feed about how the Italian Wikipedia has shut down in response to a proposed repressive law regarding mandatory takedowns of allegedly defamatory online material in Italy. I have some problems with such a move, as it sets a precedent of having a

Re: [WikiEN-l] Italian Wikipedia - probably best discussed on Foundation

2011-10-05 Thread WereSpielChequers
There are reams of postings on this in the Foundation mailing list. foundation-l mailing list foundatio...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l May I suggest that anyone who wants to follow this one signs up to Foundation, if only for the current

Re: [WikiEN-l] Italian Wikipedia - probably best discussed on Foundation

2011-10-05 Thread Rob Schnautz
facepalm Just kidding; thanks for the link. :) Bob On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 12:59 PM, WereSpielChequers werespielchequ...@gmail.com wrote: There are reams of postings on this in the Foundation mailing list. foundation-l mailing list foundatio...@lists.wikimedia.org