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Politician Forces German Wikipedia Off the Net 569

Posted by kdawson on Saturday November 15, 2008 @06:51PM from the inconvenient-truth dept.

Stephan Schulz writes "A German Member of parliament for a left-wing party, Lutz Heilmann, has obtained a preliminary injunction against the local chapter of the Wikimedia foundation, Wikimedia Deutschland e.V., forbidding the forwarding of the popular http://wikipedia.de to the proper http://de.wikipedia.org. Apparently Heilmann is not happy with the fact that his Wikipedia article (English version) contains information on his work for the former GDR Stasi, the much-hated internal secret service. Wikimedia Germany displays a page explaining the situation, and has announced that it will file an objection to get the injunction lifted. The German Wikipedia has more than 800,000 pages, and is hosted, like all Wikimedia projects, by the Florida-based Wikimedia Foundation, and hence beyond the effective reach of at least German politicians and judges."

Comment Re:Png? (Score 2, Informative) 65

by WarpFlyght on Tuesday March 29, 2005 @11:24PM (#12085326) Attached to: Another Stab at Online Outline Fonts

It's different because it degrades gracefully for text-only browsers and screen readers. As I recall, the JavaScript estimates the size of the headline based on your font settings and renders the headline accordingly, so people browsing with their font size at extra large aren't affected.

The only time it doesn't work for triple-sized fonts is if you adjust the font size while viewing the page. The JavaScript runs on page load, so you'd have to refresh to get the increased sizes to be reflected by the Flash headline.

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