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Wikipedia Mounts Courtroom Defense for Editor

posted by mattie_p on Wednesday February 19 2014, @05:33PM   Printer-friendly
from the exhibit-a-is-the-entire-website dept.

DeathMonkey writes:

"Dimitris Lioudis, a 23-year-old trainee lawyer from Athens, was sued for libel last year for writing about a Greek politician, Theodore Katsanevas. Last week, the judge overseeing the case issued an order that he remove the article from the site.

That got the attention of the Wikimedia Foundation, which has now made a public vow to support Liourdis throughout the litigation.

Say what you will about the Wiki, at least they know where their content comes from."

 
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  • (Score: 5, Informative) by VLM on Wednesday February 19 2014, @05:57PM

    by VLM (445) on Wednesday February 19 2014, @05:57PM (#2903)

    Primary sources are always better stories. Basically there exists a document claimed to be the will of a famous former prime minister, and that document describes the prime minister's relative Katsanevas as a "disgrace to the family".

    The legal history appears to be he's generally successfully bullied locals into submission, but the will has not been declared a fake.

    Oddly enough he didn't start filing lawsuits until after the divorce. Perhaps its easier to win when he can prove he's not a disgrace to the family anymore because he's no longer in the family, so he wins every time on a technicality?

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Katsanevas [wikipedia.org]

    Sad thing is he sounds like an otherwise reasonable and good guy. Wants out of the EU, etc etc.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by animal on Wednesday February 19 2014, @06:23PM

    by animal (202) on Wednesday February 19 2014, @06:23PM (#2917)

    Greek politician and a nice guy? We call them Λαμόγια (lamogia) Dont' bother going to Google translate to search for a meaning. It's a Greek politician exclusive.
    Yeah I am Greek, and whatever you say about these lamogia is just not enough.

    • (Score: 5, Informative) by animal on Wednesday February 19 2014, @06:25PM

      by animal (202) on Wednesday February 19 2014, @06:25PM (#2920)

      And it looks like UTF-8 in Greek doesn't work :)

      • (Score: 1) by maxwell demon on Wednesday February 19 2014, @06:43PM

        by maxwell demon (1608) on Wednesday February 19 2014, @06:43PM (#2933)

        And it looks like UTF-8 in Greek doesn't work :)

        I'm trying unsucessfully to answer to this post ... does it work now?

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        • (Score: 1) by maxwell demon on Wednesday February 19 2014, @06:47PM

          by maxwell demon (1608) on Wednesday February 19 2014, @06:47PM (#2938)

          Maybe the previous failure was in relation to Unicode characters ... let's try umlaut letters: äöüÄÖÜß

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      • (Score: 4, Funny) by Random2 on Wednesday February 19 2014, @06:47PM

        by Random2 (669) on Wednesday February 19 2014, @06:47PM (#2937)

        I like the posted version better, personally. Much more expressive.

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        • (Score: 1) by MaxiCat_42 on Wednesday February 19 2014, @09:48PM

          by MaxiCat_42 (2087) on Wednesday February 19 2014, @09:48PM (#3056)

          I agree, I honestly thought it was intended and fitted quite well.

          Phil.

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      • (Score: 1) by c0lo on Wednesday February 19 2014, @06:53PM

        by c0lo (156) on Wednesday February 19 2014, @06:53PM (#2940)

        Seems to be something wrong in the decoding of the POST parameters.

        When copy/paste using UNICODE, happens like this.

        When using HTML entities, everything is fine (but, of course, that would be expected)