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Persian Wikipedia: an independent source or a tool of the Iranian state?

Is Iran catching up with the trend of censorship outsourcing and using Persian Wikipedia towards this end?

Persian Wikipedia: an independent source or a tool of the Iranian state?
Wikipedia Senior Manager Arash Soleimani giving a speech next to the image of Javad Zarif. | Source: Wikipedia
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During a recent event titled “Professional meeting on the application of Wikipedia tactics in communications”, held at Iran’s Ministry of Culture, a female audience member asked:

So as Wikipedia, or as its managers, can you intervene based on the relationships you assume exist between different accounts? For example can you claim that certain users are collaborating with each other?”

Instead of replying to the question, one of the presenters of the all male panel laughs and says: