The court has the article content deleted as well as the editing history as 'the Wikipedia article is sluggish'
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On April 11, 2019, the Wikimedia Foundation, which operates Wikipedia in the Internet Encyclopedia, deletes the editorial history in addition to the article content as 'a German court says,' The description of a certain university professor's Wikipedia is defamatory ' It was decided that it should be. ' Under the ruling, the Wikimedia Foundation has made it hard to remove from the page the edit history that would otherwise remain if the description were deleted.
A German court forced us to remove part of a Wikipedia article 's history.' Here's what that means.-Wikimedia Foundation
https://wikimediafoundation.org/2019/04/11/a-german-court-forced-us-to-remove-part-of-a-wikipedia-articles-history-heres-what-that-means/
In Wikipedia, the content of the article is edited by many editors, and if someone notices a mistake or the content to be newly described increases, the article content is edited and the change is saved as 'History'. You When you click 'Display History' in the upper right corner of the Wikipedia screen ......
It is possible to check the editing history of the article content. This allows you to check what kind of editing has been done in the past, and whether the content that you are going to describe is a description that was deleted for some reason in the past. Depending on the article, it is also possible to trace the editing history back to 2001.
In the middle of 2018, a German university professor complained that the content of the Wikipedia article was slandering, and a German court accepted the university professor's assertion and ruled that the content was slandering and incorrect. did. The Wikimedia Foundation believes that the ruling also emphasized that the source was an offline source. The court seems to have ruled that the Wikimedia Foundation will delete the demeaning statements in the article and even delete the article's editing history.
Wikipedia is a large project that is constantly updated by many editors, and the history of articles is for many readers, editors and even courts to see how articles have been edited The Wikimedia Foundation claims that it is a useful tool. By deleting the article history, a new editor may think that 'this description has not been added to this item', and may re-write it, believing the deleted description is unknown information. And
Despite these Wikimedia Foundation claims, the German courts were responsible for dealing with defamatory writings and ordered that the writings and edit history in articles be deleted. The deadline for the proceedings was so short, only a day, so we couldn't get enough debate in the editors community, and unfortunately the Wikimedia Foundation says we have deleted our editorial history.
The university professor who made the complaint is alleged to be
Although the results of this time were disappointing for the Wikimedia Foundation, they do not particularly affect the editors of Wikipedia. The responsibility for the content of the articles rests with the Wikimedia Foundation, which is the owner, and editors will continue to update and add articles, which the Wikimedia Foundation said.
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