Well, that was the difference I was referring to. (I wasn't really thinking of content found libellous in court, child pornography etc.)
What is new is that the WMF is expressing an interest in the actual integrity of the *encyclopedic* content, hiring staff to address "misleading content", "disinformation", etc., rather than restricting itself to deletions required by law. The WMF's recent action concerning the Croatian Wikipedia surely is an example of this shift. The WMF had the means – but not the will – to do what it has done now, ten years ago. In a similar way, I understand that content added by ISIS sympathisers is a problem in the Arabic and Farsi Wikipedia versions that the WMF is now trying to address. Andreas On Sun, Aug 22, 2021 at 1:31 PM Mike Godwin <mnemo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Andreas Kolbe writes: > > >> It's worth noting that Yumiko's article (now also on fastcompany.com) >> quotes the WMF as saying it "does *not often* get involved in issues >> related to the creation and maintenance of content on the site." >> >> That "not often" actually indicates a little publicised but significant >> departure from past practice when the WMF would disclaim all >> responsibility >> for content .... >> > > WMF did not "disclaim all responsibility for content." Instead, WMF > disclaimed primary responsibility for content, and still does. When WMF was > understaffed, as it typically was during Wikipedia's first decade, we made > a point of steering certain complaints and legal demands to the editor > community as a default choice. The policy reasons for this choice were > straightforward. But WMF directly intervened on a number of occasions, > typically as required by law. > > Mike Godwin > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org, guidelines > at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > Public archives at > https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/message/BBWU34FH2E24KBY7T7CUCULCIJJLHNSH/ > To unsubscribe send an email to wikimedia-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org
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