[Foundation-l] A proposal of partnership between Wikimedia Foundation and Internet Archive

Wed Aug 25 23:15:33 UTC 2010

On 25 August 2010 17:49, Gregory Kohs <thekohser at gmail.com> wrote:

> I would want to see the Internet Archive behave in a more ethically
> accountable manner before any strong alliance is built with them on any
> Wikimedia function.  Namely, for the past 3 months, I have been working with
> an attorney to appeal to the Internet Archive to remove a page from their
> database that contains libelous information that has been expunged on the
> "current" page on the original domain.  The Internet Archive has been
> entirely unresponsive to these mailed letters of request.  I think the
> Wikimedia Foundation shouldn't be lining up to cooperated with organizations
> that don't even respond to important matters of defamation and libel.

You mean, you want them to remove something and you can't get them to
by demanding it, even telling them you are "working with an attorney"?
All this establishes is that you don't like a given page, not that you
have any reasonable case. I'd certainly hope they'd have more spine
than to fold in the face of such an unsubstantiated argument; you make
them sound like a solid body well worth dealing with. If that wasn't
your intention (as I'm sure it wasn't), you'd need to supply actual
substantiable detail about what you're actually talking about.

- d.