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Bassel Khartabil fellowship

Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2017 3:59 am
by ericbarbour
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

Re: Bassel Khartabil fellowship

Posted: Fri Aug 18, 2017 3:09 am
by Flip Flopped
ericbarbour wrote: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
Wales and the WMF capitalized on this poor guy's suffering to get their names in lights.

Re: Bassel Khartabil fellowship

Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2017 8:44 pm
by ericbarbour
Flip Flopped wrote:Wales and the WMF capitalized on this poor guy's suffering to get their names in lights.

You bet, and they will never admit it.

Re: Bassel Khartabil fellowship

Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2017 9:08 pm
by Graaf Statler
Flip Flopped wrote:
ericbarbour wrote: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
Wales and the WMF capitalized on this poor guy's suffering to get their names in lights.


Yeh, I agree.