{"id":3539,"date":"2014-07-16T11:39:56","date_gmt":"2014-07-16T10:39:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/?p=3539"},"modified":"2014-07-23T14:55:12","modified_gmt":"2014-07-23T13:55:12","slug":"wikipedia-editors-named-in-us-law-suit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/2014\/07\/wikipedia-editors-named-in-us-law-suit\/","title":{"rendered":"Wikipedia editors named in US law suit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Referring to my earlier post encouraging volunteers to <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/2014\/07\/using-wikipedia-in-education\/\" target=\"_blank\">write articles for Wikipedia<\/a>, here is a cautionary tale about a US law suit against four Wikipedia editors by a person who claims they defamed him in an editors&#8217; discussion forum.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.wikimedia.org\/2014\/07\/15\/wikimedia-foundation-offers-assistance-to-named-defamation-editors\/\">https:\/\/blog.wikimedia.org\/2014\/07\/15\/wikimedia-foundation-offers-assistance-to-named-defamation-editors\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[Thanks to Caroll Mitchell for forwarding this link.]<\/p>\n<p>The article describes the support being provided to the editors by the Wikimedia Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>Another link from Caroll Mitchell:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.wikimedia.org\/2014\/07\/22\/victory-in-italy-based-on-freedom-of-users\/\" target=\"_blank\">Victory in Italy &#8211; Court rules in favour of Wikimedia<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Referring to my earlier post encouraging volunteers to write articles for Wikipedia, here is a cautionary tale about a US law suit against four Wikipedia editors by a person who claims they defamed him in an editors&#8217; discussion forum. https:\/\/blog.wikimedia.org\/2014\/07\/15\/wikimedia-foundation-offers-assistance-to-named-defamation-editors\/ &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/2014\/07\/wikipedia-editors-named-in-us-law-suit\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weblearn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3539"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3546,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3539\/revisions\/3546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}