Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] The first legal threaten against Wikipedia India !

2011-02-26 Thread CherianTinu Abraham
Not really! We are closely following another case on another Wikipedian ( yes , in India ) who was reverting the removal of controversial section by the company itself ( not even with logged username, but as IP editor) on its Wikipedia article and now facing cyber crime charges and an FIR is alrea

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] The first legal threaten against Wikipedia India !

2011-02-26 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
As an editor, and a counter vandal, here is my opinion: What he did would come under blatant vandalism, as he DID NOT source his edits, and defamed living people without any base. Had he provided a reliable source, I might've considered reading it. Regards, On 26 February 2011 13:00, Yann Forget

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] The first legal threaten against Wikipedia India !

2011-02-25 Thread Yann Forget
Hello, 2011/2/26 Bishakha Datta : > On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 12:26 PM, Theo10011 wrote: >> >> Ask any OTRS volunteer about threats like these, this is nothing compared >> to the threats we get on a daily basis. > > What are the kinds of threats OTRS volunteers get? Just curious. I am not an OTRS

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] The first legal threaten against Wikipedia India !

2011-02-25 Thread Bishakha Datta
On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 12:26 PM, Theo10011 wrote: > Ask any OTRS volunteer about threats like these, this is nothing compared > to the threats we get on a daily basis. > > What are the kinds of threats OTRS volunteers get? Just curious. Bishakha ___ W

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] The first legal threaten against Wikipedia India !

2011-02-25 Thread Theo10011
heh, this seems like a gross over-reaction to a facebook post. You are giving this person undue attention by even mentioning this in a publicly archived mailing list. If the foundation were to pay attention to every random forum posting or allegations like this it would never find the time to do an

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] The first legal threaten against Wikipedia India !

2011-02-25 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
While legal counsel might be important, I think the blowing the facebook comments out of proportion IMHO is WP:UNDUE. Regards Srikanth.L http://srik.me On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 09:31, Gautam John wrote: > Hi Tinu: > > Thanks for posting this - yes, legal counsel and a risk assessment is > somet

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] The first legal threaten against Wikipedia India !

2011-02-25 Thread Gautam John
Hi Tinu: Thanks for posting this - yes, legal counsel and a risk assessment is something we are actively looking at doing - a question, would the community know if this has ever happened or threatened to happen earlier or is this the first example? Thank you. Best, Gautam http://social