July 2, 2010 - 16:53 AMT
Wikipedia Arbitration Committee bans 26 Baku wikipedians’ activity

The Arbitration Committee of Russian-language section of Wikipedia adopted a decision on the case of 26 Baku wikipedians. The claim of a Russian participant (nickname Divot) against 26 editors of Wikipedia contains an accusation of coordination of Azerbaijanis’ actions on the external resource with violation of a range of Wikipedia rules.

The activity of the most persistent violators has been banned on Wikipedia for the term of 3-6 months.

“After the unblocking, the participant will be forbidden to edit controversial articles with editing limitation of Wikipedia spaces,” reads the decision of the Arbitration Committee.