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thewayneApparently they had not previously heard of the Streisand Effect, but they're certainly now experts at it.
This is what happened.
In April 2013, the French language Wikipedia article Station hertzienne militaire de Pierre-sur-Haute attracted attention from the French interior intelligence agency DCRI. The agency attempted to have the article about the facility removed from the French language Wikipedia. After a request for deletion in March 2013, the Wikimedia Foundation had asked the DCRI which parts of the article were causing a problem, noting that the article closely reflected information in a 2004 documentary made by Télévision Loire 7, a French local television station, which is freely available online. The DCRI refused to give these details, and repeated its demand for deletion of the article. The DCRI then pressured Rémi Mathis, a volunteer administrator of the French language Wikipedia and resident of France, into deleting the article. Later, the article was restored by another Wikipedia contributor. As a result of the controversy, the article became the most read page on the French Wikipedia, with over 120,000 page views during the weekend of 6/7 April 2013.
It's not difficult to find military and intelligence communications posts. Access to them is quite another question.
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/04/06/139216/french-intelligence-agency-forces-removal-of-wikipedia-entry
And here's the Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_radio_station_of_Pierre-sur-Haute
This is what happened.
In April 2013, the French language Wikipedia article Station hertzienne militaire de Pierre-sur-Haute attracted attention from the French interior intelligence agency DCRI. The agency attempted to have the article about the facility removed from the French language Wikipedia. After a request for deletion in March 2013, the Wikimedia Foundation had asked the DCRI which parts of the article were causing a problem, noting that the article closely reflected information in a 2004 documentary made by Télévision Loire 7, a French local television station, which is freely available online. The DCRI refused to give these details, and repeated its demand for deletion of the article. The DCRI then pressured Rémi Mathis, a volunteer administrator of the French language Wikipedia and resident of France, into deleting the article. Later, the article was restored by another Wikipedia contributor. As a result of the controversy, the article became the most read page on the French Wikipedia, with over 120,000 page views during the weekend of 6/7 April 2013.
It's not difficult to find military and intelligence communications posts. Access to them is quite another question.
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/04/06/139216/french-intelligence-agency-forces-removal-of-wikipedia-entry
And here's the Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_radio_station_of_Pierre-sur-Haute
