The Wikimedia Foundation received 220 requests to delete / modify content. Satisfied - 0%

The Wikimedia Foundation published a regular Transparency Report , which reported on the number of requests and complaints received from individuals, companies and governments in different countries to change or delete content on Wikipedia and other projects of the Wikimedia Foundation.

Each year, the legal department receives hundreds of letters, calls and written requests. Politicians want to change the article in a more friendly tone, artists want more laudatory text, commercial companies claim the right to completely control the content of the article. There are requests from government agencies. Over the past six months, 220 requests to delete or edit certain content came to the Wikimedia Foundation. As already said, not one of them is satisfied. “We believe that the community of our users should determine the content of our projects,” says the Wikimedia Foundation blog.

The latest Transparency Report covers the period from July to December 2015. It has five sections.

Requests for changes and deletions . 220 requests received, including 7 from government agencies. The number of requests is relatively small, because the community carefully observes the rules of neutrality and accuracy in all disputed issues. Since the community determines what should be published, all third-party requests are ignored.
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DMCA Requests . For six months, received 20 such requests, satisfied 9 of them, when a photo or other content violated someone's intellectual rights. Editors carefully monitor this, so the number of requests is also small.

The right to be forgotten . 4 requests received, none satisfied. The Wikimedia Foundation has already expressed its concern about the position of the European Union on the “ right to be forgotten ”, that is, the right of a citizen to remove true information about themselves from the Internet. According to the Wikimedia Foundation, this approach threatens the free flow of knowledge.

Requests user data . 25 requests were received, including informal requests from government agencies, informal non-governmental requests, court orders, subpoenas in civil and criminal matters. Only one request is satisfied, but in this case, the Wikimedia Foundation did little to help law enforcement officers, because it collects very little information about users and stores it for a short time.

Voluntary disclosure . In extremely rare cases, important information about possible suicides and crimes, such as terrorist attacks, appears on projects of the Wikimedia Foundation. Then the organization voluntarily informs the law enforcement agencies. Over the past six months there have been 12 such cases.