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Court rules Wikipedia not authoritative
Thursday, September 4th, 2008Court rules Wikipedia not authoritative: “
Egan Orion the Inquirer, Wednesday 3 September 2008. 15:13:00
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A US APPEALS COURT has ruled that Wikipedia entries, which anyone might edit, are not authoritative sources of information suitable for federal judges to base their decisions upon. In particular, the 8th US Circuit Court of Appeals decided last Friday that the Department of Homeland Security should not rely upon…
(Via The Inquirer.)
Syria Blocks the Arabic Wikipedia
Sunday, May 18th, 2008Syria Blocks the Arabic Wikipedia:
According to anasonline blog, access to Wikipedia Arabic, the Arabic language version of the free online encyclopedia Wikipedia, is now blocked by all ISPs in Syria.
(Via Global Voices Advocacy.)
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