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[Laurence67]

Hi,

I have just written and published on my web site an article about my unfortunate experience by taking part to an article on Wikipedia : "Bogdanov affair". The subject is two French scientists and TV presenters who have been harrassed for 2 years by some people on Internet (Web and Usenet) ; these "harassers" have done all they could in order to make this article as bas as possible for their public image. The Bogdanovs tried to defend themselves and, exactly as you mentioned in the post above, they were treated very badly by some administrators, and then they were banned by the Arbitrator Committee. I was also, because I tried to defend them. More precisely : the arbitrators banned all people who had taken part to the "revert war", except for... two detractors, among the worst ones !

I sumd up the story on my personal page, as an (ex-)Wikipedian : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Laurence67

My article is a lot longer and more detailed, but it is in French... Sorry, I really cannot translate that ! So, if some of you can read in french : Wikipédia et l'affaire Bogdanov : "encyclopédie libre" ou dictature virtuelle ?. For the ones who cannot, it means "Wikipedia and the Bogdanov affair : free encyclopedia or virtual dictatorship ?"

Best regards,
Laurence67

[Laurence67]

Laurence interviewed the Bogdanov brothers back on November 11 at the "Utopiales 2005" science fiction festival in Nantes.

Yes, I did ! Great memory !

There are also pictures about that on my web site :
http://www.bogdanov.ch/Photos-accueil.htm#Uto05