Re: NEWSWEEK: Manipulating Wikipedia to Promote a Bogus Business School
Banibrata Dutta <[email protected]>
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Hit send button too soon... Also wanted to write - 'Thank you'. On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 10:58 AM, Banibrata Dutta <[email protected] > wrote: > 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 > -- 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