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Britannica Editor's son

Hey there, We met at Wikimania Taiwan and I mentioned the story of when the son of the editor of Britannica posted here that his father had dies, but was removed for lacking sources. Here is the link to the original article where I read that, in the Weekly Signpost (the wikipedia newspaper) of April this year. Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2007-04-16/Britannica. The relevant story is at the bottom of the article.

I hope that helps, Good luck, I'll be following your progress with interest, Witty Lama 13:36, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

Your user page

Do not link youir user page to an article again as you did here. Take great care with this as you have now been warned, SqueakBox 00:05, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

Venezuela

Nic?, well, I don't know who's userpage is this, but it's me, Damian, from Venezuela, I have some great news for you guys, please contact me asap to damian.finol (_@_) gmail . com (You know how to edit this to get my email :P). DamianFinol 00:57, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

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Synopsis on your website Truth in Numbers

You spelled possess incorrectly.--Filll (talk | wpc) 19:36, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

Synopsis on your website Truth in Numbers

You spelled possess incorrectly.--Filll (talk | wpc) 19:39, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

Image source problem with Image:P2170051.jpg

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My message to the FBI

Dear Mr. Klempert,

I wanted to let you, as a member of Wikimedia's Board of Trustees, know that I have sent the following message to the FBI, my senators and representatives, and your fellow trustees. I have also posted it to EDTECH, the educational technology mailing list, and Tweeted about it.

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Lawrence M. Sanger, Ph.D. | http://www.larrysanger.org/ Editor-in-Chief, Citizendium | http://www.citizendium.org/ Executive Director, WatchKnow | http://www.watchknow.org/ sanger@citizendium.org

I really regret having to report this, but I feel I must. My name is Dr. Larry Sanger and I am widely known as co-founder of Wikipedia, the encyclopedia project. I have long since departed the organization, over disagreements about editorial and management policy. I have also since founded a more responsible project, Citizendium.org, and a teacher-edited non-profit directory of preK-12 educational videos, WatchKnow.org. Given my position of influence on matters related to Wikipedia, though I'm no longer associated with it, I feel I have a moral obligation to make the following report. The language of 18 USC §1466A makes it sound like I have a legal obligation as well, so here goes.

I believe Wikimedia Commons (http://commons.wikimedia.org/), owned and hosted by the California-based Wikimedia Foundation, may be knowingly distributing child pornography. The clearest instances I found (I did not want to look for long) are linked from [deleting link; it's a category about pedophilia] and [link deleted; it's a category about something called lolicon]. I don't know if there is any more, but I wouldn't be surprised if there is--the content on the various Wikimedia projects, including Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons and various others, are truly vast.

You can see on [the history of the category page] that the page has existed for three years. Considering that Eric Moeller, a high-level Wikipedia manager, is well known for his views in defense of pedophilia (http://mashable.com/2008/05/08/erik-moeller-pedophilia/), surely the existence of this page must have come to the attention of those with the legal responsibility for the Wikimedia projects.

In my non-lawyer's opinion, it looks like this violates 18 USC §1466A(2)(A). http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/18/1466A.html Perhaps the defense of this will be that the depictions are exempted due to §1466A(2)(B), i.e., the Wikimedia Foundation may argue that the images have some artistic value. I guess that's for you and maybe the courts to decide.

There are probably many copies of such images online. If there is a reason to hold the Wikimedia Foundation [responsible], however, is that they purport to be a reliable source of information. Moreover, a recent discussion on EDTECH, the educational technologists' list, indicates that some school district filter managers are not filtering such smut from the view of teachers and students. See: http://h-net.msu.edu/cgi-bin/logbrowse.pl?trx=lx&list=EDTECH&user=&pw=&month=1004 It was actually in response to comments on that discussion that I decided to look into this situation myself.

I don't envy the FBI the task of regulating the seedy underside of the Internet, and I doubt this is very high on your list of priorities. But I want to be on the record stating that this is wrong and should be investigated.