News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on French homeland intelligence threatens a sysop into deleting a Wikipedia Article. Parent comment

Re:French homeland intelligence threatens a sysop into delet... by misiti3780 on Saturday April 06, 2013 @11:28AM (#5503845)
" It receives hundreds of requests for deletions of articles every year, and cooperates with requests when those are clearly motivated."

It only receives hundreds? Something is wrong with sentence.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:French homeland intelligence threatens a sysop into delet... by ErrantX on Saturday April 06, 2013 @11:45AM (#5503903)
As I read the sentence, it means hundreds of requests... from public authorities.

I think that's an overestimate. As a volunteer on the Wikimedia email ticket system (where most such requests, and indeed I believe this example as well, go to) I've only seen a few such requests from public bodies.

EDIT: actually, it seems this did go through the (employed) WMF legal team, rather than the volunteer support service. Sorry :)

[ Parent | on HN ]