Re: NEWSWEEK: Manipulating Wikipedia to Promote a Bogus Business School
Banibrata Dutta <[email protected]>
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Kudos, for a job well done. On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 9:40 PM, sarbajit roy <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > India-gii mailing list > India-gii-IAPFreCvJWP2/[email protected] > https://lists.india-gii.org/mailman/listinfo/india-gii > -- regards, Banibrata http://www.linkedin.com/in/bdutta http://twitter.com/edgeliving _______________________________________________ India-gii mailing list India-gii-IAPFreCvJWP2/[email protected] https://lists.india-gii.org/mailman/listinfo/india-gii