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| The Russian language Wikipedia is blacked out today in response to a proposed law "on information". The decision was taken by around 300 members of the Russian language Wikipedia community and is an independent action. The below text is taken from Wikimedia Russia's blog (with some very minor amends). You can see the blog in the [http://www.wikimedia.ru/blog/2012/07/10/zabastovka-vikipedii-na-russkom-yazyke/ original Russian, alongside English, here]
| | Tyson Lee Holmes was with friends when he read about ‘Monmouthpedia, the World’s First Wikipedia Town.’ His first thought was, wouldn’t it be great if we could do it here, in Gibraltar? So, next day, he took the initiative. He contacted the Minister for Tourism, Neil Costa, and asked for permission to talk to the team behind Monmouthpedia. |
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| Wikipedia in Russian will be closed on 10 July because of Russian parliament’s debating of amendments to the law about information (in Russian) that could create real censorship of the internet — a blacklisting and filtering of internet sites.
| | Tyson’s initiative, in talking to Neil Costa, and instigating an approach on behalf of this British Overseas territory, greatly impressed the Monmouthpedia organisers, Roger Bamkin and John Cummings. They had already been inundated with offers from people looking for their city to be the world’s second Wikipedia town. Offers had come in from the Czech Republic, the USA, Norway and elsewhere. None had such strong political support behind them. |
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| Supporters of the law’s proposition say that it is aimed only at widely prohibited content such as child pornography and "things like that", but conditions for determining the content falls under this law will create a thing like the Great Firewall of China.<span class="plainlinks">[http://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/2012/07/russian-language-wikipedia-blacked-out-for-10-july-protest/<nowiki>[</nowiki>...<nowiki>]</nowiki>]</span>
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| | Within a few weeks, the Monmouthpedia team was in Gibraltar. They met Tyson and the Gibraltar’s Director of Heritage, Clive Finlayson. Next, they met the Minister of Tourism, Neil Costa. In Tyson’s company, the team toured Gibraltar and experienced its rich cultural heritage first hand. To end the visit, they met with a large group of committed local Wikipedian volunteers and discussed how a project might be taken forward in Gibraltar. They felt that Tyson had all the key ingredients in place, so much so, that some preparatory work has already started, with Tyson creating articles, and volunteer editors already showing interest in starting work. <span class="plainlinks">[http://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/2012/07/volunteers-efforts-win-gibraltar-the-right-to-be-the-first-wikipedia-city/<nowiki>[</nowiki>...<nowiki>]</nowiki>]</span> |
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