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Re:Russian Wikipedia Goes on Strike Over Censorship Plans by cabirum on Tuesday July 10, 2012 @06:09AM (#4222901)
Like I said, they did not give people time to vote, nor did they provide any notice of the planned actions beforehand.
Re:Russian Wikipedia Goes on Strike Over Censorship Plans by guard-of-terra on Tuesday July 10, 2012 @06:16AM (#4222915)
We'll be more than happy to hear any real wikipedia contributors' points on the subject. We're not happy to hear for random people who aren't active contributors to wikipedia but still think wikipedia owes something to them.

They don't technically need to have all the "85 rouble party" crowd to do the voting before deciding anything. It's not how wikipedia works.

Re:Russian Wikipedia Goes on Strike Over Censorship Plans by dbaupp on Tuesday July 10, 2012 @09:17AM (#4223568)
Why do you keep replying to yourself?
Re:Russian Wikipedia Goes on Strike Over Censorship Plans by cabirum on Tuesday July 10, 2012 @09:22AM (#4223588)
Sorry. For some reason, the reply link was unavailable on come comments. (workaround is to use "link" and open single comment with a reply field)

see http://imgur.com/yYOBm

Re:Russian Wikipedia Goes on Strike Over Censorship Plans by ajuc on Tuesday July 10, 2012 @09:54AM (#4223743)
It's not bug, it's a feature. Replying is only possible a few minutes after the comment was posted, to prevent discussion going out of hand.

Besides I don't understand what wikipedia did wrong.

Re:Russian Wikipedia Goes on Strike Over Censorship Plans by cabirum on Tuesday July 10, 2012 @10:25AM (#4223916)
Ah, thanks, the delay does not seem to be explained anywhere.

About Wikipedia. Do you still remember the SOPA blackout day? Everybody was warned about upcoming blackout a few weeks beforehand, and most importantly, pretty much everyone supported the blackout, thus reaching the consensus. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Consensus

Today, Russian Wiki is closed. The decision was taken yesterday by a bunch of admins, who started a poll, without any warning and without anyone prepared. It is a violation of consensus rules as described in the link above: "Consensus ... nor is it the result of a vote."

Admins' actions today are a blatant violation of these rules by Coordinated actions, Meatpuppetry and are biased in general: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:False_consensus