Wikimedia’s Middle East editors ban shows risks for creators – Fri, January 27 2023
Written by on January 27, 2023
Nazih Osseiran (Thomson Reuters Foundation) (The Jakarta Post)
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Fri, January 27 2023
Rights groups have accused the Saudi Arabian government of “infiltrating” and seeking to control Wikipedia, after the Wikimedia Foundation banned 16 users for engaging in “conflict of interest editing” in the Middle East and North Africa.
The ban late last year came after an almost yearlong investigation that concluded that the users had close connections to “external parties”, and that these links were a source of “serious concern for the safety” of users, said the Wikimedia Foundation, which runs Wikipedia.
Beirut-based digital rights group SMEX and human rights group Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN) said that Saudi authorities had recruited Wikipedia’s most reputed administrators in the country to control information about the kingdom.
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