Only hours after doxing Wikipedia volunteers to a court in India, Wikipedia tweeted out this 5-month old feel-good piece about protecting volunteers.
https://twitter.com/Wikimedia/status/1870440013529296968
“Because people can not contribute what they know and learn from others if they are afraid of being tracked by ads or spied on, if they fear censorship, or if they fear for their digital safety.”
Here is the video.
The WMF sent information about volunteers in India to the India court in a “sealed cover”.
Sucks and Wikipediocracy both have threads on this, I’ll just post their links.
The open letter to the Wikimedia Foundation now has 1375 signatures. I can remember when anything with 500 signature was a big deal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:2024_open_letter_to_the_Wikimedia_Foundation
The talk page is being updated:
Just noting two things here.
The admins from India have only been *accused* of defamation. Now that the court has their identities, the actual statements will be examined to see if they do actually contain defamation. So anyone can go on a fishing expedition to get someone’s identity, and then say ‘oops, no laws were broken after all’, and now that we know who you are, it would be a shame if someone fell out of a window or something. And of course whatever is in the “sealed” document is now out, India is one of the biggest places for bribery there is. They are also saying the documents will be unsealed at the end of the court case, so it might be cheaper to just wait until they are published.
IPs on this page are being ruthlessly hunted down and blocked. They geolocate to India and are reporting on the court case.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/157.37.134.204
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/157.37.185.116
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/157.37.174.217
Video of the court in India. I think they are speaking English, but I can’t understand any of it. It is supposed to show Wikipedia giving private information about volunteers to a judge.
If they can do this in India, what is next, Mar-al-Lago?
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There is a page for court updates, LOL. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:ANI_vs._WMF_Delhi_court (Sure, you can post here if you like.)
The letter has now been “closed” to new signatures. Aren’t they supposed to stay open for at least 30 days? In this case shouldn’t it stay open even longer and not just NAC? A lot of people are probably just discovering this page and want to register their opinions. Does anyone really believe the WMF Legal pays any attention to these things, other than to send Jimbo out to try to defuse them? Why “obey in advance”? https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:2024_open_letter_to_the_Wikimedia_Foundation&diff=prev&oldid=1263561304 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk:2024_open_letter_to_the_Wikimedia_Foundation&diff=prev&oldid=1263740245
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