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Re:French homeland intelligence threatens a sysop into delet... by davidgerard on Saturday April 06, 2013 @02:15PM (#5504449)
He's on the board of Wikimedia France, so dealing with the government is part of what they do.

(WMFR has no control over Wikipedia content or servers.)

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Re:French homeland intelligence threatens a sysop into delet... by philwelch on Saturday April 06, 2013 @03:03PM (#5504633)
Though this incident rather puts the lie to that.
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Re:French homeland intelligence threatens a sysop into delet... by jleader on Saturday April 06, 2013 @06:41PM (#5505330)
"WMFR has no control over Wikipedia servers, and no more control over Wikipedia content than any other volunteer editor."

Fixed that for the GP.

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Re:French homeland intelligence threatens a sysop into delet... by ErrantX on Saturday April 06, 2013 @07:01PM (#5505384)
David means as a legal entity. It's basically the standard refrain for any Wikimedia chapter :)

If the chapter, as an entity, tried to "interfere" in one of the Wikis it would go down very badly within the community. There is a certain amount of push and shove that means chapters are extremely careful to be seen only ever as facilitating.

But that's a whole rabbit hole of politics beyond the scope of this discussion :D

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