The site http://www.wikipedia.de until recently referred to http://de.wikipedia.org. The Wikipedia page about the parliamentarian Lutz Heilmann mentions that he previously been assosiated with the Stasi and that he has tried to hide that piece of his past after the fall of the Berlin wall.
Through a court order Lutz Heilmann succeeded in forcing the owner of wikipedia.de to no longer redirect this domain name to the German version of Wikipedia. The contents of the offending article is, however, still available on http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lutz_Heilmann
An immense response to this has come from the Internet community, which now caused the German parliamentarian to have come to repentance and he offered his apologies for starting a trial for this. The German version of Wikipedia should again be reachable via the .de domain name soon.
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This post was written by Bart on November 17, 2008
