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On 30 March 2026 the Wikimedia Foundation banned a group of editors who were administrators and highly active editors in Serbian Wikipedia, with some of those also being active in other Wikimedia projects as well. As usual for Wikimedia Foundation bans, there is no public case evaluation or explanation. The Wikimedia Foundation and Wikimedia volunteer user community regulate these bans according to the WMF Global Ban Policy. A practical general explanation of all bans is that the banned users are mixed up in an issue which has caused a problem, but the banning process itself does not communicate or indicate guilt or wrongdoing. Presume that some users may have been in an unfortunate situation and keep things positive.
Also as usual, edit histories in Wikipedia are public and permanent, and anyone can examine the contribution history of these accounts. The Wikimedia banning process is unusual as compared to, for example, those of other social media accounts, because user account contributions in Wikipedia remain published, whereas in typical other user-generated content platforms, a ban results in deletion of all content.
The general context of this ban is years of ongoing controversy about government-level, institutionally-funded, espionage and propaganda entering Serbian language Wikipedia through a coordinated effort. The Signpost has covered this over the years
The new development https://www.vreme.com/en/drustvo/vikipedija-na-srpskom-desnicari-banovanje/
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