Hello,
FYI we had the same issue two years ago in Tunisia when a Tunisian
politician was shot and an IP made the edit in UTC. See our response in
(in French)
http://www.wikimedia.tn/nouvelle-polemique-sur-wikipedia-en-tunisie/
Finally the Radio station who relayed this "scoop" wrote an apologize text.
Habib,
from Wikimedia TN User Group
Le 02/03/2015 14:37, Yuri Astrakhan a écrit :
A few days ago, a well known Russian politician Boris Nemtsov was
assassinated <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Boris_Nemtsov> near
the Kremlin. This murder had a huge political resonance, and conspiracy
theories flourished. Yet, one of the theories was due to Wikipedia's
representation of time - anonymous users see change history in UTC. This
confusion was so big, that several major publications, including Moskovkij
Komsomolets <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moskovskij_Komsomolets>,
published articles
<http://www.mk.ru/politics/2015/02/28/vikipediya-zaranee-otchitalas-ob-ubiystve-nemcova-zapis-poyavilas-v-2140.html>
(in
Russian) claiming that the wiki page proclaimed him dead before the
assassination. The MK article was later updated with the explanation, but
the damage has been done: a number of threats were made against the editors.
In light of the above, I feel we need to
#1 Show a clear message at the top of all history-related pages for
anonymous users that the time is in UTC until #2
#2 JavaScript should fix time on the fly for all users
Suggestions welcome.
Thanks!
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