Roskomnadzor wants to promptly edit controversial Wikipedia articles
The agency proposed an online encyclopedia to create a special working group for this purpose.
Head of Roskomnadzor Alexander Zharov suggested that Wikipedia establish a partnership, Kommersant writes . The Office proposes to create a permanent joint working group for the rapid analysis and editing of controversial articles of the Internet encyclopedia. The structure of such a group, the head of Roskomnadzor believes, may include service experts, as well as employees of the Prosecutor General’s Office and the Interior Ministry. Such steps will help establish a permanent channel for communication, according to government officials.
“They are against interaction with any authorities, and they make consensus unattainable. It is generally obvious to me that interaction is always better than the absence of this kind of interaction. We always urge the administration of any sites, and even more so of such a significant resource as “Wikipedia”, to ensure that we have a permanent communication journal, that we have a permanent working group with which we could discuss the filing of one or another material, ”said Vadim Ampelonsky, spokesman for Roskomnadzor.
If everything is done according to the proposed plan, then in the future it will be possible to avoid adding Wikipedia to the unified register of prohibited information, says Alexander Zharov.
The administration of the online excyclopedia does not agree with the proposed measures. “In“ Wikipedia ”we do not edit articles on the decision of a body. Current practice - those Wikipedia members who read the article, find there any inaccuracies, mistakes, of course, the article is being edited. But to say that what Roskomnadzor does not like is always removed there, I cannot. Wikipedia is being edited by about 1.8 million editors. Is he ready to create a working group of 1.8 million people? No such working group has special powers. And even if someone - a member of the working group - starts deleting some information from the article, it will be blocked, ”noted the executive director of Wikimedia.ru Stanislav Kozlovsky.
Let me remind you that earlier the agency wanted to block five articles on drugs on Wikipedia. One article was deleted, after which four materials were added to the registry. Due to the fact that the online encyclopedia works over SSL, blocking certain articles was not possible, therefore Roskomnadzor was preparing to block the entire resource in Russia. But then he reversed that decision .
Head of Roskomnadzor Alexander Zharov suggested that Wikipedia establish a partnership, Kommersant writes . The Office proposes to create a permanent joint working group for the rapid analysis and editing of controversial articles of the Internet encyclopedia. The structure of such a group, the head of Roskomnadzor believes, may include service experts, as well as employees of the Prosecutor General’s Office and the Interior Ministry. Such steps will help establish a permanent channel for communication, according to government officials.
“They are against interaction with any authorities, and they make consensus unattainable. It is generally obvious to me that interaction is always better than the absence of this kind of interaction. We always urge the administration of any sites, and even more so of such a significant resource as “Wikipedia”, to ensure that we have a permanent communication journal, that we have a permanent working group with which we could discuss the filing of one or another material, ”said Vadim Ampelonsky, spokesman for Roskomnadzor.
If everything is done according to the proposed plan, then in the future it will be possible to avoid adding Wikipedia to the unified register of prohibited information, says Alexander Zharov.
The administration of the online excyclopedia does not agree with the proposed measures. “In“ Wikipedia ”we do not edit articles on the decision of a body. Current practice - those Wikipedia members who read the article, find there any inaccuracies, mistakes, of course, the article is being edited. But to say that what Roskomnadzor does not like is always removed there, I cannot. Wikipedia is being edited by about 1.8 million editors. Is he ready to create a working group of 1.8 million people? No such working group has special powers. And even if someone - a member of the working group - starts deleting some information from the article, it will be blocked, ”noted the executive director of Wikimedia.ru Stanislav Kozlovsky.
Let me remind you that earlier the agency wanted to block five articles on drugs on Wikipedia. One article was deleted, after which four materials were added to the registry. Due to the fact that the online encyclopedia works over SSL, blocking certain articles was not possible, therefore Roskomnadzor was preparing to block the entire resource in Russia. But then he reversed that decision .