Forwarding a discussion from the South Africa mailing list. A quick recap: on Nov 22, the South African parliament passed the "secrecy" bill: http://mg.co.za/article/2011-11-22-passing-of-secrecy-bill-comes-as-no-surp… - a bill which has been criticised while in the making for imposing unreasonable restrictions on free speech and a free media. Immediately afterwards, the article pertaining to the ANC, the party in power in South Africa, was vandalised in protest, by blacking out certain portions of the text. (This blacking out happened in mainstream newspapers in South Africa as well, by design, in protest of the passing of the bill). While this wasn't a community decision (as David points out the article has since been fixed and protected), and while the page was on English Wikipedia and not a South African language Wikipedia, it does bear some connection to the blackout at Italian Wikipedia and the discussions around how to react to inhibiting media laws in the US - and whether Wikipedia itself can/should become a tool of protest. I thought it might be interesting to members of the list. Cheers, Achal -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [Wikimedia ZA] Wikipedia makes front page on IOL Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2011 22:24:44 +0100 From: David Richfield <davidrichfield(a)gmail.com> To: wikimediaza <wikimediaza(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Good thinking! Also, the article doesn't mention the fact that the Wikipedia article has since been fixed and protected. On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 10:05 PM, Ian Gilfillan <wikimediaza(a)greenman.co.za> wrote: -- David Richfield e^(πi)+1=0 _______________________________________________ WikimediaZA mailing list WikimediaZA(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaza _______________________________________________ Internal-l mailing list Internal-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/internal-l