Wikipedia Gecensureerd Nieuws van de Ontvoering van Afghanistan

De New York Times gewerkt met Wikipedia om nieuws van de ontvoering van één van zijn verslaggevers in Afghanistan van de online gebruiker-uitgegeven encyclopedie te houden.

De New York Times de verslaggever David Rohde, die door Taliban in November werd ontvoerd, ontsnapte van zijn overweldigers samen met zijn vertaler deze maand.

Een aantal nieuws organisaties, met inbegrip van Agence Frankrijk-Presse, op verzoek van De New York Times, overeengekomen om de ontvoering uit zorgen voor hun veiligheid niet te melden.

Het houden nieuws van Wikipedia was een andere kwestie, Tijden gezegd.

Het zei dat op minstens dozijn gelegenheden, geposte gebruiker-redacteurs nieuws van de abductie op een pagina Wikipedia over M. Rohde, slechts om gewist het te hebben.

Several times the page was frozen, preventing further editing, it said.

“The sanitising was a team effort, led by Jimmy Wales, co-founder of Wikipedia, along with Wikipedia administrators and people at the Times,” the newspaper said.

“We were really helped by the fact that it hadn’t appeared in a place we would regard as a reliable source,” Mr Wales told the Times.

“I would have had a really hard time with it if it had.”

The Times said that two days after the November 10 kidnapping, Michael Moss, an investigative reporter at the Times and friend of Mr Rohde, altered Mr Rohde’s Wikipedia entry to emphasise that his work could be seen as sympathetic to Muslims, like his reporting on Guantanamo and his coverage of the Srebrenica massacre of Bosnian Muslims.

It said that the next day, an unidentified user, citing an Afghan news agency report, edited the entry on Mr Rohde and mentioned the kidnapping.

Mr Moss deleted the mention, and the user promptly restored it, adding a note protesting the removal, the Times said.

It said the Times eventually reached out to Wales and Wikipedia put an indefinite block and then a temporary freeze on changes to the page.

“We had no idea who it was,” Mr Wales said of the unidentified user making the edits.

He said there was no indication the user had ill-intent.

The Times said Mr Wales himself unfroze the page after the June 19 escape by Mr Rohde and his interpreter, Tahir Ludin.

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