Wikipedia - Garner Ted Armstrong Evangelistic Association https://www.garnertedarmstrong.org Let No Man Take Your Crown Tue, 16 May 2023 20:04:37 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 https://www.garnertedarmstrong.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/cropped-Screen-Shot-2024-05-16-at-1.06.13-PM-32x32.png Wikipedia - Garner Ted Armstrong Evangelistic Association https://www.garnertedarmstrong.org 32 32 Twitter wrong to block tweets during Turkey election – Wikipedia founder https://www.garnertedarmstrong.org/twitter-wrong-to-block-tweets-during-turkey-election-wikipedia-founder/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=twitter-wrong-to-block-tweets-during-turkey-election-wikipedia-founder Tue, 16 May 2023 20:04:37 +0000 https://www.garnertedarmstrong.org/?p=43932 Twitter’s decision to block certain content in Turkey the day before its presidential election was wrong, says the founder of Wikipedia. Jimmy Wales told the BBC his organisation had spent two and a half years in court to avoid similar demands made by Turkey in the past. He said he believed the tech sector should...

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Twitter’s decision to block certain content in Turkey the day before its presidential election was wrong, says the founder of Wikipedia.

Jimmy Wales told the BBC his organisation had spent two and a half years in court to avoid similar demands made by Turkey in the past.

He said he believed the tech sector should stand together in defending free access to information.

Twitter’s owner Elon Musk said Turkey had threatened to block the whole site.

In 2014, Turkish President Recep Erdogan did exactly that, vowing to “wipe out” the social network after corruption allegations about his administration were shared on the platform.

Wikipedia was also banned in Turkey for almost three years after refusing to delete articles that criticised the government.

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Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-65609123

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]]> Vladimir Putin calls for ‘reliable’ Russian version of Wikipedia https://www.garnertedarmstrong.org/vladimir-putin-calls-for-reliable-russian-version-of-wikipedia/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=vladimir-putin-calls-for-reliable-russian-version-of-wikipedia Tue, 05 Nov 2019 19:16:53 +0000 http://www.garnertedarmstrong.org/?p=29537 President says user-edited site should be replaced with Big Russian Encyclopaedia  Vladimir Putin was speaking at a Kremlin meeting on the future of the Russian language. Photograph: Alexei Druzhinin/Tass Vladimir Putin has called for the creation of a more “reliable” Russian version of Wikipedia. The president told a Kremlin meeting on the future of the Russian...

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 Vladimir Putin was speaking at a Kremlin meeting on the future of the Russian language. Photograph: Alexei Druzhinin/Tass

Vladimir Putin has called for the creation of a more “reliable” Russian version of Wikipedia.

The president told a Kremlin meeting on the future of the Russian language: “As for Wikipedia … it’s better to replace it with the new Big Russian Encyclopaedia in electronic form,” RIA Novosti news agency reported. “At least that will be reliable information, presented in a good, modern way.”

Putin was referring to a Russian encyclopaedia published between 2007 and 2014 in paper form.

The government plans to allocate nearly 1.7bn rubles (£20.7m) to developing a Russian online reference resource similar to Wikipedia in the next three years, according to government documents published in September.

Putin was responding to a comment by a university rector who complained about the use of Wikipedia by courts to reach verdicts.

The widely used Russian-language Wikipedia, known as Vikipedia, says it has more than 1.5m articles.

In 2015, Russia briefly banned Wikipedia over an entry on a form of cannabis.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/05/vladimir-putin-calls-for-reliable-russian-version-of-wikipedia

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