http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/aug/18/wikipedia-editing-zionist-groups
> Yesha Council, representing the Jewish settler movement, and the rightwing > Israel Sheli (My I srael) movement, ran their first workshop this week in > Jerusalem, teaching participants how to rewrite and revise some of the most > hotly disputed pages of the online reference site. > "We don't want to change Wikipedia or turn it into a propaganda arm," says > Naftali Bennett, director of the Yesha Council. "We just want to show the > other side. People think that Israelis are mean, evil people who only want to > hurt Arabs all day." > And on Wikipedia, they believe that there is much work to do. > Take the page on Israel, for a start: "The map of Israel is portrayed without > the Golan heights or Judea and Samaria," said Bennett, referring to the > annexed Syrian territory and the West Bank area occupied by Israel in 1967. > Another point of contention is the reference to Jerusalem as the capital of > Israel – a status that is constantly altered on Wikipedia. > In 2008, members of the hawkish pro-Israel watchdog Camera who secretly > planned to edit Wikipedia were banned from the site by administrators. > Meanwhile, Yesha is building an information taskforce to engage with new > media, by posting to sites such as Facebook and YouTube, and claims to have > 12,000 active members, with up to 100 more signing up each month. "It turns > out there is quite a thirst for this activity," says Bennett. "The Israeli > public is frustrated with the way it is portrayed abroad." > The organisiers of the Wikipedia courses, are already planning a competition > to find the "Best Zionist editor", with a prize of a hot-air balloon trip > over Israel. -- gwern _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
