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The Wikimedia Foundation ordered an admin to delete two controversial Wikinews articles, and Jay Walsh, the Foundation’s head of communications, knew more about this than he would like to admit, according to Wikinews author Jason Safoutin.
Safoutin contacted me after listening to this interview with Walsh. Walsh denied first-hand knowledge of an internal conversation about the [...]

A few days ago, Wikileaks accused the foundation that heads up Wikinews and Wikipedia of censorship after a controversial article was deleted from Wikinews.
Jason Safoutin, a Wikinews volunteer, wrote an article about alleged child pornography on Wikipedia. At issue: a 1976 Scorpions album cover that depicts a prepubescent girl in a provocative pose. The album [...]

The Wikimedia Foundation censored a Wikinews article about possible child pornography on Wikipedia, according to Wikileaks‘ most recently leaked document.
For full coverage, see this post.
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From a Wikinews Watercooler thread about the censored article, a comment by the article’s author, DragonFire1024:
My beef: this was an office [...]

The Wikimedia Foundation censored a Wikinews article about possible child pornography on Wikipedia, according to Wikileaks‘ most recently leaked document.
The Wikimedia Foundation is the parent company of Wikipedia and Wikinews, as well as a bunch of other free-content, user-created wikis. Wikileaks is not associated with Wikimedia.
Here’s the scoop. What happened, and when:

A Wikipedia article about [...]

Want a peek at how Wikileaks operates? The site’s special pages section has tons of data about site usage, including who’s updating which pages, which articles are the most popular, and which users have lost their editing privileges.
Where the updates are:

The most revised article is this one, US Military Equipment in Afghanistan. It has been [...]

Wikileaks is not a completely open wiki, like Wikipedia is. Anyone can contribute to Wikipedia as an editor or writer, and the site relies on other editors and writers to fact-check content, weeding out inaccurate or biased data as it appears.
But Wikileaks recruits journalists, or at least people with experience writing, editing or researching. You [...]

Music guides, love advice, travel tips, corporate branding and political propaganda — Wikis aren’t just for Wikipedia.
In fact, there’s a whole Wiki world out there on the Web, and if you want a part in it, visit a site dedicated to a topic you care about and start editing.
Beginners should start at c2.com, the [...]