Wikipedia’s first transparency report shows it doesn’t give up much to the government

The Wikimedia Foundation said it has received five notices from Google so far saying its content has been scrubbed from European search results. The notices affect more than 50 links and Web pages. That's far more than the one Wikipedia entry that's been reportedly affected by the law to date. Wikipedia doesn't have much say over what content gets de-listed. What's been removed may never even come to light, said Geoff Brigham, the Wikimedia Foundation's (WMF) general counsel. "Google's reporting to us because it's doing the right thing," said Brigham. "But it's not clear other search companies will be doing the right thing. We may report that we've received 100 notices when in fact, we may have been delinked by other services 10,000, 20,000 times."

WMF is vowing to disclose the number of right-to-be-forgotten notices it receives in a transparency report. Wikipedia has received 56 requests for its users’ data from public and private institutions over the last two and a half years. Wikipedia said it received 10 requests for users’ data in the first six months of the year from both government and nongovernment bodies in six countries, including the United States, France and Germany.