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Wikipedia Mounts Courtroom Defense for Editor

posted by mattie_p on Wednesday February 19 2014, @05:33PM   
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."

• Re:Vague Summary Re:Vague Summary (Score: 3, Insightful) by Maow on Wednesday February 19 2014, @08:25PM

  by Maow (8) on Wednesday February 19 2014, @08:25PM (#3005) Homepage

  Also on the subject of Vagueness, "Athens, Greece" would be better.
  I live within driving distance of 3 cities named Athens. It was confusing.

  How about you assume that a three thousand four hundred year old metropolis, home to > 600,000 inside the city or > 3,000,000 including the region, is the default Athens unless "Athens, Butt Crack" or "Athens, Arm Pit", etc. are specified?

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• Re:Vague Summary (Score: 1) by Walzmyn on Wednesday February 19 2014, @09:58PM

  by Walzmyn (987) on Wednesday February 19 2014, @09:58PM (#3063)

  Was only an example. I've seen this a bunch when they were referring to (hypothetical) Athens TN instead of the 3k year old one.

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