...and ensuring its translated into as many languages as possible! On 06/04/2013 7:10 AM, "Peter Southwood" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Well that's one way of drawing attention to the site... > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tomasz W. Kozłowski" < > [email protected]> > To: "Wikimedia Mailing List" > <[email protected].**org<[email protected]> > > > Sent: Friday, April 05, 2013 7:41 PM > Subject: [Wikimedia-l] French intelligency agency forces removal of > aWikipedia article > > > 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<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?diff=prev&oldid=91703508> >> > >> * >> <https://fr.wikipedia.org/w/**index.php?oldid=91705235<https://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=91705235> >> > >> >> -- >> Tomasz W. Kozłowski >> a.k.a. [[user:odder]] >> >> ______________________________**_________________ >> Wikimedia-l mailing list >> [email protected].**org <[email protected]> >> Unsubscribe: >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/**mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l<https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l> >> >> >> ----- >> No virus found in this message. >> Checked by AVG - www.avg.com >> Version: 2012.0.2240 / Virus Database: 2641/5726 - Release Date: 04/05/13 >> >> > > ______________________________**_________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > [email protected].**org <[email protected]> > Unsubscribe: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/**mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l<https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l> > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
