NEWSWEEK: Manipulating Wikipedia to Promote a Bogus Business School
sarbajit roy <[email protected]>
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Manipulating Wikipedia to Promote a Bogus Business School http://www.newsweek.com/2015/04/03/manipulating-wikipedia-promote-bogus-business-school-316133.html By Alastair Sloan / March 24, 2015 12:20 PM EDT Vickram and/or veteran Wikimedians on this channel can know that on 13 March 2015 I had already filed a formal IT Act case concerning 'inter-alia' these gangs of rogue extortionate Wikipedia administrators hiding behind their anonymity and multiple fictitious IDs and who have given Indian Wikimedians a bad name. In my complaint I have asked for "Wifione" to be unmasked and prosecuted for ruining the lives of thousands of Indian students. My action was preceded by 2 years of dialog by our side with fellow Wikipedians / WMF and a 3 month action in Switzerland brought by WMF against me which then gave me a cause of action to file the IT case in India. In our instances, we were subjected to illegal demands and financial threats since 2013 and my dialog with Wikimedia Foundation's legal counsel repeatedly ran into a brick wall of solid indifference and evasions to protect their anonymous admins. It was only thanks to a proactive Indian board member that things started moving and 5 old time Wikimedia Admins were eventually "globally banned" in December 2014 as a result of coordinated efforts between veteran members of the WIKIMEDIA community who had seceded in 2008 from the WMF's "projects" after realizing what d****b*gs they were. Sarbajit