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For context see the report on the recent bans of Arabic Wikipedia admins by the Wikimedia Foundation in Wikipedia's community newspaper, the Signpost: https://
by akolbe 4y ago
For context see the report on the recent bans of Arabic Wikipedia admins by the Wikimedia Foundation in Wikipedia's community newspaper, the Signpost:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2023-01-01/News_and_notes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2...
Note that the people jailed since 2020 are unpaid volunteers – not paid staff, as the headline implies.
- akolbe 4y agoAnother report, by DAWN (the org mentioned in the Guardian article): https://dawnmena.org/saudi-arabia-government-agents-infiltrate-wikipedia-sentence-independent-wikipedia-administrators-to-prison/ https://dawnmena.org/saudi-arabia-government-agents-infiltra...