Bassel Khartabil fellowship
Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2017 3:59 am
The past two weeks have been a SLOW time for Wiki crap. However:
https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Mozilla,_C ... e_activist
There you are, an example of a Wikipedian who was executed, although for reasons we'll probably never know (prob. not for his wiki editing, I have no idea as he was mostly active on Arabic-language WP). There's a long article about him.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bassel_Khartabil
Which reminds me: the BBC report of his death shows just how much Wiki-Luv the BBC has these days. Because it ends with a quote from Jimbo. Who had NOTHING to do with Bassel.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-40795739
https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Mozilla,_C ... e_activist
There you are, an example of a Wikipedian who was executed, although for reasons we'll probably never know (prob. not for his wiki editing, I have no idea as he was mostly active on Arabic-language WP). There's a long article about him.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bassel_Khartabil
Which reminds me: the BBC report of his death shows just how much Wiki-Luv the BBC has these days. Because it ends with a quote from Jimbo. Who had NOTHING to do with Bassel.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-40795739