Wikimedia releases first transparency report: Over 300 content edit and takedown requests rejected

The Wikimedia Foundation today released its first transparency report, giving a crucial first glimpse at the volume of government requests it receives for user data, content alterations and takedowns. Between June 2012 and June 2014, the Foundation received 56 requests for information about its users. Of these, the Foundation categorised 43 as “informal,” or submissions that didn’t involve a formal legal process. “For example, this would include a situation where a government sends us a letter or an email requesting nonpublic information about one of our users,” the Foundation explains. To break this figure down further; 15 requests were from...

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