A German court forced the removal of a Wikipedia article’s history

Three months ago, a German court ruled that part of a Wikipedia article—found to be defamatory in a previous court decision—had to be removed from both the article and its associated revision tracker, known as a “history” page. Despite these compelling reasons for retaining the history of an article, the German court ruled that the article history must be deleted or the Wikimedia Foundation would be liable for the defamatory content contained therein. This result is disappointing for us, but it is not a notable change in the law, and while it may harm the integrity of some articles by deleting important information about their history, it does not impose any new editorial standards on individual Wikipedia contributors.

Source: wikimediafoundation.org