This is where the discussion is happening on-wiki: http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Bulletin_des_administrateurs#Secret_d.C3.A9fense
On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 10:52 AM, Fred Bauder <fredb...@fairpoint.net> wrote: > Hard to know what was involved from the information you provide. The > problem is there is classified information that amounts to nothing and > then there is classified information release of which can cause serious > damage. Defiance will eventually result in serious trouble. Not that we > should knuckle under to nonsense. > > Fred > > > Hi there, > > I guess you might be interested to hear that Direction Centrale du > > Renseignement Intérieur (Central Directorate of Interior Intelligence, > > DCRI), a French intelligence agency that reports directly to the > > Ministry of the Interior, has apparently forced a French Wikipedia > > administrator to delete an article that in their opinion—as I > > understand it—revelead classified information deemed very harmful to > > the French national defence ("compromission du secret de la Défense > > nationale"). > > > > Interestingly, they contacted the WMF legal team with a request to > > remove (delete? suppress?) this article a couple of weeks before that, > > but were refused after failing to provide further information on why > > the article should be removed (in the words of a Foundation legal > > counsel). > > > > Undounted by that, they approached the said administrator — who > > operates under his real name, so I guess it was pretty easy to track > > him — and asked him to delete this article, a request which he > > obliged. (The article has since been restored by a different > > administrator). As far as I understand, the version of the article > > they wanted to have deleted was > > <https://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=81104004>. > > > > I guess that when an intelligence agency asks their citizen to remove > > information from Wikipedia citing the penal code (article 413-11 of > > the French penal code in this case), it is something worth sharing (no > > harm intended). > > > > Further reading in English: > > * <https://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=prev&oldid=91703508> > > * <https://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=91705235> > > > > -- > > Tomasz W. Kozłowski > > a.k.a. [[user:odder]] > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimedia-l mailing list > > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l > -- Matthew Roth Global Communications Manager Wikimedia Foundation +1.415.839.6885 ext 6635 www.wikimediafoundation.org *https://donate.wikimedia.org* _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l