Wikimedia Confusion Swirls In Wake of Porn Charges

Contridictory stories are circulating after Fox News's pursuing of Wikimedia Foundation for hosting pornography reportedly resulted in Jimmy Wales personally removing some pornographic material from its servers, then giving up his special editing privileges under pressure. Fox News reported that Wikimedia is "in chaos"; this report was picked up by VentureBeat and others. Wales denies that there is any chaos (any more than usual, that is) at Wikimedia. The Fox News report apparently relied on a single unnamed source, and Wales said, "They don't even bother to contact me before publishing nonsense." The background: on April 27 Fox News published an exclusive report about porn on Wikimedia servers, then followed up by contacting organizations that had donated to Wikimedia to ask them what they thought about it. In the aftermath, Wales took a position in support of purging porn from Wikimedia Commons. This all started when estranged Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger contacted the FBI with an allegation of child porn on Wikipedia.

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Internet Wars

[Anonymous Coward]

Oh, good. Seems like we haven't had a proper internet war since Usenet vs. Scientology or vi vs. emacs.

Oh well, at least the right people usually win. What would've happened if Scientology or emacs had won?

Re:Internet Wars

[Anonymous Coward]

I could see that, maybe, if you didn't have to become acquianted with the manual to do something as basic as, say, entering text.

Re:Internet Wars

[Anonymous Coward]

When I start emacs, I don't even get a place to type text. Just a menu offering a bunch of ways to get help. The help screen uses completely separate (+unintuitive and severely limited, I might add) keybindings. The opening menu mentions something about "visit new file", which not only sounds like some sort of Microsoft Bob jargon for thinking good thoughts about one's day, but also, as a special bonus, when selected it opens a little prompt at the bottom that says "Find file: ~/"

At least with vim, if you try to treat it like a sane editor, it is very likely to start working accidentally.

Re:Internet Wars

[Bugamn]

Hey, that's how I started using vim for coding C:

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Fox "News"

[DerKlempner]

Fox News reported that Wikimedia is "in chaos"

Hello, pot; it's me, kettle!

Or, in other words...

[SanityInAnarchy]

[citation needed]

Re:Fox News vs. Wikipedia

[sa1lnr]

Murdoch against porn?

http://www.page3.com/

Re:Next target

[Renraku]

All people in possession of one of these books should be jailed pursuant to the set of child pornography laws. Teaching pediatrics is only for filthy perverts who should be hung by the balls and shot! Anyone who has a child actually come out of their body should also be imprisoned for rape. Emergency room personnel who witness a child being treated should be jailed as well.

Re:Ignorance of the Masses

[PopeRatzo]

Breasts aren't pornography. Penises aren't pornography.

Tentacles are kind of pornography. A little bit. If done well.