By Scroll Staff
The Wikimedia Foundation, the United States-based non-profit that runs Wikipedia, has “suspended access” to a page on the online encyclopaedia about a defamation case filed against it by Asian News International.
This came after the Delhi High Court on Wednesday ordered Wikipedia to take down the webpage, titled Asian News International vs Wikimedia Foundation.
Wikipedia is a free online collaborative encyclopaedia edited by volunteers.
The High Court has been hearing a defamation case filed by ANI seeking removal of the description on another Wikipedia page about the news agency. The page about ANI says that the news agency has been criticised for serving as a “propaganda tool” for the current Union government.
The court has also asked Wikipedia to identify the editors of the page about ANI, which the platform has refused to do.
After the case started, another page appeared on Wikipedia discussing the proceedings in the legal matter. The division bench of Chief Justice Manmohan and Justice Tushar Rao Gedela had observed on Wednesday that the comments made on this page against the court’s single-judge bench were prima facie contemptuous.
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