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EXCLUSIVE: Shakeup at Wikipedia in Wake of Porn Purge (editors rebelled against removing porn)
Fox News ^ | May 14, 2010 | Jana Winter

Posted on 05/14/2010 11:36:48 PM PDT by Stoat

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After much pressure from within the Wikipedia community, co-founder Jimmy Wales has relinquished his top-level control over the encyclopedia's content, as well as all of its parent company's projects.

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When asked who was in charge now, the source said, “No one. It’s chaos.”

According to insider sources and publicly available internal listserve discussions, Wikimedia editors have rebelled in the last week against Wales' attempts to remove pornographic images from the nonprofit's websites. Those images have been the subject of heated discussion within the community since their existence was revealed exclusively by FoxNews.com on April 27.

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Hundreds of listserve discussions among Wikimedia board members, administrators and editors reveal the eruption of a heated and chaotic debate over whether to delete the images, which legal analysts say may violate pornography and obscenity laws.

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By Thursday the discussion had devolved into an all-out war pitting board members against board members, and with top leadership sparring with lower level administrators.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; News/Current Events; Technical
KEYWORDS: internet; pornography; pr0n; wikimedia; wikipedia
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To: SmokingJoe

Preddling?
Confounded?
or too find real porn?

If you are going to criticize a source, shouldn’t you take the time to verify your own grammar?


21 posted on 05/15/2010 9:39:14 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (The Last Boy Scout)
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To: pepsionice

Maybe Wiki should just partner up with Craigslist .


22 posted on 05/15/2010 9:40:51 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (The Last Boy Scout)
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To: SmokingJoe

I have been made aware that the website you quoted from is a parody website, and that the errors might belong to them, not you.

If so, my apologies.


23 posted on 05/15/2010 9:43:26 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (The Last Boy Scout)
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To: ketsu; dennisw

Apparently, that site is a parody site.
See post # 17.
Apologies.


24 posted on 05/15/2010 9:43:31 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: UCANSEE2
If you are going to criticize a source, shouldn’t you take the time to verify your own grammar?

Not my “own grammar”. It was a direct cut and paste, with the link provided. That's why I put it in quotes.

25 posted on 05/15/2010 9:46:10 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: UCANSEE2

No problem.


26 posted on 05/15/2010 9:46:44 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
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