Relevant Article: Asian News International sues Wikipedia for “Defamation” and Archived version
Apparently, Delhi High Court asked Wikipedia to disclose information about editors of said article, which made some controversial edits on the Wikipedia ANI page.
The article states that Wikipedia failed to provide said information.
From the article
Wikipedia explained that the delay had been caused as the platform didn’t have any physical presence in India.
“It is not a question of the defendant not being an entity in India. We will close your business transactions here," the judge said in a stark warning.
ANI asks for removal of said “controversial” edits and wants ₹20000000, ~$240k from Wikipedia.
From the related article:
2022-10-10: Ayurvedic Medicine Manufacturers of India filed petitions to the Supreme Court, saying that an article on Wikipedia about them, as defamatory. To that, the bench said, “You can edit the Wikipedia article…” and that they could use “any other remedy available to them”.
Additional information from me:
- IP Addresses of people in Talk and the times of edit are available freely on the Wikipedia page.
- Wikipedia SHOULD NOT be expected to have the ability to trace people on the internet any more than that.
I usually try to stay away from any of those.
Just that this time, they decided to use the legal system to suppress Wikipedia, which is why I thought, this needed to be shared.
Normally, I don’t even care about checking Wikipedia for controversial topics.