[Foundation-l] Ongoing FUD campaign against Wikipedia in Serbian

Sun Jul 4 19:22:43 UTC 2010

Just to inform you that there is ongoing campaign against Wikipedia in
Serbian by an irrelevant LGBT organization called Gay and Lesbian Info
Center (GLIC) [1]. The organization has good political and media
connections, including B92.

Article about this organization [2] has been deleted [3] because
organization exists for one year and it didn't have any relevant
action, except meeting with the president of Serbia, Boris Tadic. This
was enough for them to use their political and media connections to
start FUD campaign against Wikipedia in Serbia. Thanks to those
connections, Wikimedia Serbia was not able to publish its own
response.

They presented this at the first moment under the title "Homophobia on
Serbian Wikipedia", but article name has been changed.

Unlike their claims, other, relevant LGBT organizations have articles
about them, like Queeria [4] is. We also have relatively good articles
about LGBT issues: Lesbian [5], Gay [6], Bisexuality [7], Transgenders
[8], Timeline of LGBT history [9]. We also have at least one important
members our community which are a part of LGBT population.

The point here is just to inform LGBT Wikimedians that everything is
fine with relation between Serbian Wikimedians and LGBT population.
The action which has been made by this irrelevant organization already
makes more damage to them than to us. So, we are fine with that, too
:)

[1] - http://www.b92.net/eng/news/society-article.php?yyyy=2010&mm=07&dd=04&nav_id=68230
[2] - for those with extra permissions:
http://sr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Геј_лезбејски_инфо_центар
[3] - http://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B8%D1%98%D0%B0:%D0%A7%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%86%D0%B8_%D0%B7%D0%B0_%D0%B1%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%B0%D1%9A%D0%B5#.D0.93.D0.B5.D1.98_.D0.BB.D0.B5.D0.B7.D0.B1.D0.B5.D1.98.D1.81.D0.BA.D0.B8_.D0.B8.D0.BD.D1.84.D0.BE_.D1.86.D0.B5.D0.BD.D1.82.D0.B0.D1.80
[4] - http://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queeria
[5] - http://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B5%D0%B7%D0%B1%D0%B5%D1%98%D0%BA%D0%B0
[6] - http://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%B5%D1%98
[7] - http://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%81%D1%83%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%BD%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82
[8] - http://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%81%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%BD%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82
[9] - http://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pregled_LGBT_istorije