Penza administration is trying to resolve the issue with "insults" on Wikipedia in a legal manner
An article about the mayor of Penza, Roman Chernov, was vandalized . This is a common phenomenon in the free encyclopedia - vandals are usually quickly blocked by site administrators, and their changes are discarded. In addition, Wikipedia has a patrol system - this means that the edits must be checked by experienced editors before they get into the “stable version” of the article, however, untested edits are available to everyone with the appropriate mark.
Despite this, the Penza administration, finding unverified edits with accusations against the mayor of Penza in organizing beatings and insults, considered this a gross violation of the legislation of Russia (Part 1 of Article 23 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation) and decided to process the issue using the Russian judicial system - they sent statements to the Penza prosecutor's office and the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia.
In Wikipedia, the CWR rule applies to such cases: the CRT regulates the writing of articles about living persons - any dubious information about them must be confirmed by sources, or deleted. The Wikipedia administration responded quickly to what happened - the text of vandal edits was hidden for non-administrators, the article was forbidden to be edited to anonymous authors for a week and it was permanently stabilized - that is, now only the verified version will be displayed to anonymous readers of Wikipedia.
The topic is discussed by Wikipedists on the forum of the Russian section of Wikipedia .
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According to Stas Kozlovsky, the executive director of “Wikimedia RU”, law enforcement agencies are already engaged in business - an employee of the Penza department “K” of the Ministry of Internal Affairs contacted NP “Wikimedia RU”. Pre-investigation check-up lasts from 3 to 10 days.
The outcome of this case may determine the fate of many Wikiprojects located on the territory of the Russian Federation - since the pages of such Wikiprojects can be edited by everyone, even an unregistered participant, any sanctions against Wikipedia or its administration will allow provocations against unwanted Wikiprojects and close them in a similar way, and will simply reduce their stability, since pre-moderation in MediaWiki and other wikiprojects is almost not common.
Despite this, the Penza administration, finding unverified edits with accusations against the mayor of Penza in organizing beatings and insults, considered this a gross violation of the legislation of Russia (Part 1 of Article 23 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation) and decided to process the issue using the Russian judicial system - they sent statements to the Penza prosecutor's office and the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia.
In Wikipedia, the CWR rule applies to such cases: the CRT regulates the writing of articles about living persons - any dubious information about them must be confirmed by sources, or deleted. The Wikipedia administration responded quickly to what happened - the text of vandal edits was hidden for non-administrators, the article was forbidden to be edited to anonymous authors for a week and it was permanently stabilized - that is, now only the verified version will be displayed to anonymous readers of Wikipedia.
The topic is discussed by Wikipedists on the forum of the Russian section of Wikipedia .
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According to Stas Kozlovsky, the executive director of “Wikimedia RU”, law enforcement agencies are already engaged in business - an employee of the Penza department “K” of the Ministry of Internal Affairs contacted NP “Wikimedia RU”. Pre-investigation check-up lasts from 3 to 10 days.
The outcome of this case may determine the fate of many Wikiprojects located on the territory of the Russian Federation - since the pages of such Wikiprojects can be edited by everyone, even an unregistered participant, any sanctions against Wikipedia or its administration will allow provocations against unwanted Wikiprojects and close them in a similar way, and will simply reduce their stability, since pre-moderation in MediaWiki and other wikiprojects is almost not common.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/143372/
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