Is Azerbaijan the new Kazakhstan?

[Mancunium]

Turan: Rauf Mirkadirov accused of transferring data to Armenia which can easily be found in Wikipedia
Panorama (Armenia), 18 July 2014 link

"Suppose Rauf Mirkadyrov spied for the Armenians. Then where is the money he has earned? Where did he put them, what the funds, which he according to the Prosecutor's Office and the Ministry of National Security had received from the Armenians, have been materialized in?" wonders the Azerbaijani news agency "Turan." Yesterday MNS and General Prosecutor's Office of Azerbaijan issued a joint statement against Rauf Mirkadirov, the journalist of the newspaper "Zerkalo". The statement read that there were "reasonable suspicions about Rauf Mirkadirov’s conscious cooperation with the secret police of Armenia." The article notes that after the deportation of the journalist his family remained without livelihood. If not for the support of his colleagues from the international organizations, the family would still be without a piece of bread. [...]

Further, the agency wonders, where could Mirkadirov find from the schemes and photos of military units and strategic infrastructure? "Did he secretly come from Turkey and traveled across the country, secretly took pictures and shipped back to Armenia? Okay, let’s believe in it. But where was the counterintelligence for so many years. How could they miss the harmful activities lasting for years, why didn’t they stop him?" Turan writes, noting that those who are interested in any country may to delve in Wikipedia to find information they need. [...]

In its turn, the Azerbaijani human rights activist Leyla Yunus in an article published by "Turan" agency writes that the joint statement of the special services is not only a Stalinist style, but has also resemblance to McCarthyism, Maoism, and also indicates a low level of professionalism. "Dear investigators, in which century do you live? Have learnt anything, besides how to invent and falsify charges against the best people in the country? After all, even falsifications besides being cynically should be done (here you have succeeded) professionally and truthfully," says Yunus. She also notes that Mirkadirov was accused of transferring information to the Armenian side which is openly available in internet. [...]

Rauf Mirkadirov, columnist of Azerbaijani newspaper "Zerkalo", was arrested on April 18 in Ankara on charges of expiration of documents. On April 19 Mirkadirov was deported to Azerbaijan, where he immediately was arrested and put in custody by the MNS on suspicion of treason. On April 21 the court in Baku sanctioned his arrest for three months. Mirkadirov is accused of the cooperation with special services of Armenia; specifically he is accused of making the transfers of the state secret information, including those about the dislocation of Azerbaijani Armed forces to Armenia during 2008-2009.

Rauf Mirkadyrov: spy and traitor, or Wikipedia reader?

[tarantino]

I National Wikipedia Forum held in Azerbaijan
Wikipedia Azerbaijan held I National Wikipedia Forum on 10 March.
News.Az, 11 March 2014 linkhttp://news.az/articles/society/87070[/link]

The forum attendd by well-known Wikipedia experts, NGO representatives, young scholars and young people aimed to bring together experts in this field, to exchange opinion on current state of Wikipedia Azerbaijan, to discuss ways to solve problems, to develop an action plan and a packet of proposals aimed at developing Wikipedia. The first panel of the forum attended by 120 people was titled ‘Pace of development of Wikipedia Azerbaijan’ and was moderated by IRELI Public Union Chairman Rauf Mardiyev. The first panel was addressed by MP, Wikipedia administrator Aydin Mirzazade talked about the history of Wikipedia Azerbaijan, its users and number of articles.

Rector of Khazar University Hamlet Isakhanli described Wikipedia as one of the fantastic projects saying that it is the first source of the information searhed. Noting the role of Wikipedia in scientific research, he emphasized the importance of integration of Wikipedia into education system. Later Wikipedia administrator Irada Alakbarova made a presentation on Wikipedia. The last speaker of the panel was socia media expert Rasim Mahmudov who stated that the potential of Azerbaijani society allows to achive even greater results.

The panel continued in discussions. The second panel discussed ‘Current problems in Wikipedia Azerbaijan and ways to solve them.’ The panel was moderated by Wikipedia administrator Irada Alakbarova. Representative of Wikimedia Azerbaijan Orkhan Guliyev said volunteers are needed to develop Wikimedia. Over 100 proposals collected as a result of all speeches and discussions were announced at the end of the forum. The forum participants decided that the working group to be created in future will work out proposals and an action plan.

How nice that one of the Wikipedia's administrators is a Member of Parliament. Maybe I will Google some of these people, when I find the time.


(left to right:) well-known Wikipedia experts, NGO
representatives, young scholars and young people

Long-time Azerbaijani administrator Irada Alakbarova, who is a department head in the Information Technology Institute of the Azerbaijan Academy of Sciences, was globally banned yesterday.

Special:Log/WMFOffice

19:36, 11 June 2015 WMFOffice (talk | contribs) changed status for global account "User:Irada@global": Set locked; Unset (none) (Globally Banned by WMF)
19:35, 11 June 2015 WMFOffice (talk | contribs) changed status for global account "User:İrada@global": Set locked; Unset (none) (Globally Banned by WMF)

I haven't figured out why yet. It may have something to do with the subject of her recent dissertation.

On May 15, scientific seminar was held at the Institute of Information Technology of ANAS.
Sector chief Irada Alakbarova presented her dissertation on “Developing the methods and algorithms for the analysis of information warfare technologies in Wiki-environment” and informed about its urgency, scientific and practical significance, information warfare problems in wikipedia, and their solution ways.

[Hex]

http://jpit.az/storage/files/article/dc ... 262599.pdf

Irada Y. Alakbarova
Institute of Information Technology of ANAS, Baku, Azerbaijan

Conceptual model of wiki-community participation in the formation of the e-government

The article describes the structure and operation of the information influence analysis system developed to investigate technologies of information warfare in a wiki environment. The system is designed to determine the hidden social networks, effective use of multimedia resources and to solve a number of related issues. The system is implemented in a programming framework based on the Microsoft SQL, software packages Delphi and Firebird.

Keywords: information warfare, Wikipedia, multimedia resources, social network, Firebird, OLAP, Data Mining

Google Translator has an Azerbaijani option if you want to read the whole paper (I haven't).

[The Adversary]

http://jpit.az/storage/files/article/dc ... 262599.pdf

Irada Y. Alakbarova
Institute of Information Technology of ANAS, Baku, Azerbaijan

Conceptual model of wiki-community participation in the formation of the e-government

The article describes the structure and operation of the information influence analysis system developed to investigate technologies of information warfare in a wiki environment. The system is designed to determine the hidden social networks, effective use of multimedia resources and to solve a number of related issues. The system is implemented in a programming framework based on the Microsoft SQL, software packages Delphi and Firebird.

Keywords: information warfare, Wikipedia, multimedia resources, social network, Firebird, OLAP, Data Mining

Google Translator has an Azerbaijani option if you want to read the whole paper (I haven't).

Hmmm, that paper mentions articles on en.wp like Shusha (T-H-L), Human rights in Azerbaijan (T-H-L), Khojaly Massacre (T-H-L), Sumgait pogrom (T-H-L), Ramil Safarov (T-H-L),Kirovabad pogrom (T-H-L), Stepanakert (T-H-L), Azerbaijan (Iran) (T-H-L)

..pretty much the most controversial areas.

[tarantino]

Her name written in Azeri is İradə Ələkbərova.

As far as I can tell, she helps run a government program that fights against "the Armenian misinformation campaign". For some reason, Google usually translates İradə Ələkbərova to Will Ali, and mistakenly uses male pronouns.

[eppur si muove]

How can people be so hostile to the Azeri government? Lady Gaga sang Imagine at the opening ceremony of the European Games in Baku and nine heads of state/government including Vladimir Putin, Recep Tayyip Erdogan and their equivalents from San Marino, Luxembourg and Monaco were there to witness it. With such stamps of approval everything must be rosy there. Clearly the Guardian reporter was only banned from covering the games because the Azeris had heard that the paper uses Richard Symonds as a source.

[Zoloft]

Wikipedia as a weapon of state?

[When pigs fly]

Wikipedia as a weapon of state?

That's one fucking sad state.

[The Joy]

Wikipedia as a weapon of state?

My old avatar suddenly makes sense now!

[Johnny Au]

Armenia and Azerbaijan both use Wikipedia as a weapon of mass propaganda, especially given that they have bad blood between each other as neighbours.

[The Joy]

Armenia and Azerbaijan both use Wikipedia as a weapon of mass propaganda, especially given that they have bad blood between each other as neighbours.

Lest we forget:

Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Armenia-Azerbaijan (T-H-L)

Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Armenia-Azerbaijan 2 (T-H-L)

[The Adversary]

How can people be so hostile to the Azeri government? Lady Gaga sang Imagine at the opening ceremony of the European Games in Baku and nine heads of state/government including Vladimir Putin, Recep Tayyip Erdogan and their equivalents from San Marino, Luxembourg and Monaco were there to witness it. With such stamps of approval everything must be rosy there. Clearly the Guardian reporter was only banned from covering the games because the Azeris had heard that the paper uses Richard Symonds as a source.

Hmmrf. You forgot

Now, if you want to collect criticism against the Azeri government, do you look among Category:Azerbaijani Wikipedians?
Hmm. With people like Nicat49 (T-C-L) (proudly displaying his barn-stars from a blocked sock and with a user box "This user served in the Azerbaijani Armed Forces") ......eh; I don´t think so.


However, go to anyone in Category:Armenian Wikipedians ...and most likely he or she would dish up tons of dirt on Azerbaijan before you even finished spelling Nagorno Karabakh (T-H-L)

Have fun.

[tarantino]

Here's the reason for Irada's global block. She got into a dispute with someone after trying to get the article about the LGBT history of Azerbaijan deleted. She proceeded to out him on Facebook, contact his employer several times and threatened to take the dispute to national television.