My, thanks for all these answers. I will paste the links on his talk
page (and pray he understands english) and see what comes out of it.
That would be properly amazing.
Ant
Brion Vibber a écrit:
Anthere wrote:
In particular, when he edits, some words
disappear, or parts of words do.
A couple of examples :
*http://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Discussion_Utilisateur:Anthere&diff=0&oldid=1618445
*http://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Discuter:Accueil&diff=prev&oldid=1595496
*http://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dieu&diff=prev&oldid=1566454
Now... this guy argues that he is not responsible of the consequences of
his edits, that either he has a virus, or that his browser (Firefox) is
responsible of the word damaging and removal of all references to women.
The removed portions in those pages are:
pagan
femmes
d il do
images q
It's possible that this person is behind some kind of censoring web
proxy which is trimming out words it has listed as potentially
"offensive" or "sexual" or perhaps even "un-Christian".
I'm not sure
what's wrong with "imagesq" though... ;)
The word 'femme' in English sometimes has connotations regarding
homosexuality and gender identity and I can certainly imagine a
hypersensitive prude filter removing it. (See the Wikipedia article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Femme )
For background on these censoring proxies and their problems, see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorware
What do you suggest ? In all good faith ?
Seriously ?
Such a filter might be installed by a workplace, library, or school and
the person might not even be aware of it... but now that they are, it
would be irresponsible for them to continue editing and corrupting our
content without doing something about it. (ie, SHUTTING IT OFF or
editing from someplace where the filter is not active.)
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)
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