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...so know you know.

Not quite...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:TuomasTumour

http://www.nme.com/news/various-artists/41495

The Scorpions' Wikipedia page banned in UK

German band's 1976 LP sleeve sparks web censorship row

German band The Scorpions have become embroiled in a web censorship row after certain UK internet providers blocked access to a Wikipedia page about the band.

A page on the band's 1976 album 'Virgin Killer' has been restricted after the Internet Watch Foundation warned providers that the record's sleeve � which features the image of a young naked girl � could be illegal.

As a result, several British ISPs have blocked access to the band's Wikipedia entry, reports BBC News.

However, volunteers who help run the online encyclopaedia have objected to the ban, not only pointing out that the album sleeve has appeared in several books without prosecution, but also that the measures have blocked UK users from accessing and editing other parts of the site.

http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2007/11/02/Nevermind_071101033501724_wideweb__300x299.jpg

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2008/dec/08/internet

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7774102.stm

The online watchdog, the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), has withdrawn its objection to a Wikipedia page that contained an image of a naked girl.

The page of the online encyclopaedia shows an album cover of German heavy metal band Scorpions, released in 1976.

A number of internet providers blocked the page after IWF said it could be "potential illegal child sexual abuse."

The IWF now says that given the age and availability of the image, it was no longer on its list of proscribed sites.

Volunteers who run Wikipedia said it was not for the foundation to censor the site, which is one of the web's most popular.

They also argued that the image was available in a number of books and had never been ruled illegal.

In a statement on its website, the IWF said that the image could still potentially breach the Protection of Children Act 1978, but "in light of the length of time the image has existed and its wide availability, the decision has been taken to remove this webpage from our list."

Wikipedia volunteer David Gerard said he and fellow users were angry that as well as the photo, the text on the page had been blocked.

"Blocking text is a whole new thing - it's the first time they've done this on such a visible site," he said.

The IWF admitted that its attempts to prevent people seeing the image had been counter productive.

"IWF's overriding objective is to minimise the availability of indecent images of children on the internet, however, on this occasion our efforts have had the opposite effect. We regret the unintended consequences for Wikipedia and its users."

haha that lp cover girl (how ould would she be) should be interviewed about the effects on her life or something.

*old*

Heh, Gerard's a friend of mine. He's been inundated with calls from the media about this ridiculous issue.

It's such a non-issue the sales of the scorpions cds wont even go up!

Well its not a non-issue from the POV of internet censorship, in fact in a way I'm glad this happened because we're going through this bull at the moment: the govt here want to introduce a *mandatory* internet filter that they'd force all ISPs to run at the ISP level, not telling anyone whats on the banned list. It started at 1300 existing sites (known extremist/child porn illegal stuff) and has slowly expanded to 10000 sites, and now "things ppl will report" and all kinds of bullshit. The filters have been proven not to work in at least 2 sets of trials, the largest (and part govt owned) ISP refuses to participate in the trials, and our comms and IT senator is a complete fuckwit puppet who is being manipulated by religious idiots.

So this issue shows this shit up for the flaky, unworkable thing it is.

Its esp bad for 2 reasons: slippery slope of "whats being blocked", esp when no one is allowed to know, and the more obvious and annoying "hey, this filter slows down data speeds by up to 80%!" which like, get fucked.

Oh I know what you mean. I just meant that a 30 year old album cover is a non issue that should never have actually got banned by UK ISP's . The regulators need regulation!

Today's featured article is 'Gropecunt Lane'. Should make them popular with schools etc.

http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Researchers_find_moonlight_influences_owl_monkeys%27_nocturnal_activity

This is pretty interesting:
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/10/04/regarding-recent-events-on-italian-wikipedia/

Today the volunteers of the Italian Wikipedia community made the decision to replace all of Italian Wikipedia with a message to readers about a law (PDF in Italian) being discussed before the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian parliament. The message outlines the viewpoints of the Italian Wikipedia community, and provides details about the proposed bill, and how it threatens the ability to openly collaborate in the sharing of knowledge. This is certainly a decision the Italian Wikipedia community did not take lightly.

The Wikimedia Foundation stands with our volunteers in Italy who are challenging the recently drafted “DDL intercettazioni” (or Wiretapping Bill) bill in Italy. This bill would hinder the work of projects like Wikipedia: open, volunteer-driven, and collaborative spaces dedicated to sharing high-quality knowledge, not to mention the ability for all users of the internet to engage in democratic, free speech opportunities.

Wikipedians the world over pride themselves on their ability to rapidly remove false information from their project. Wikipedia has established methods to receive complaints or concerns from individuals or organizations and a strong system exists to remove incorrect or false information, and if necessary to remove complete articles in an effort to prevent vandalism. For Wikipedians, there is no value nor need for this proposed legislation.

The Wikimedia Foundation supports the rights of all people to access our free knowledge content everywhere in the world, and we equally support the work of our editors to collaborate in the production of this free knowledge without the spectre of sanctioned punishment or attacks towards their work.

Even if it is just for a day or two, the shutdown of a whole country's (language's?) Wikipedia is quite a big deal. I'm surprised I haven't seen anything about this in mainstream news.

reuters reported on it though. it's a weird thing for sure.

Hello:

http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/11/19/jstor-provides-free-access-to-wikipedia-editors/