Ekşi Sözlük
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| Kutsal bilgi kaynağı (German: "source of holy knowledge") | |
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| languages | Turkish |
| operator | Ekşi Teknoloji |
| user | 490,000 (2014) |
| Registration | Yes |
| On-line | February 15, 1999 |
| https://eksisozluk.com/ | |
Ekşi Sözlük (German: “The acidic lexicon”) is a Turkish social network , online forum and user-generated dictionary in which registered users can write entries on all conceivable terms, topics and facts - whether real or hypothetical. The entries do not have to be true or occupied. The vast majority of authors are anonymous. This makes the concept very similar to Japanese image boards . The linguistic interaction of the site using menus, buttons and e-mails is of a consistently ironic and mocking tone. Ekşi Sözlük's motto is “Source of Sacred Knowledge”. The site is ranked 8th among the most popular websites in Turkey (as of September 2015).
history
Ekşi Sözlük was founded in 1999 by Sedat Kapanoğlu, ahead of Wikipedia (2001), Myspace (2003), Facebook (2004) and Twitter (2006), making it one of the oldest social networks in the world. Originally planned as part of the satire site sourtimes.org, the site has developed into the focus of its activities. Kapanoğlu said he was inspired by Douglas Adams' science fiction novel The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy .
Content and user structure
In 2014 Ekşi Sözlük had 21.6 million posts on 2.9 million topics, which were written by 400,000 registered users. The site operator Kapanoğlu categorically rejects editorial interventions and deletions: "It is not up to me to decide whether something is wrong or right."
Since the site carries out a kind of admission procedure, there were 90,000 entitlements in addition to the existing users in 2014. After their registration, candidates end up in the "çaylak havuzu", the consecration pool, and can only interact with the site to a very limited extent for the duration of their qualification. When the candidates have completed 10 entries, their full membership as an author will be "considered". Some users of the site report that this process can take years. There is a lot of information circulating on the site, some of which are diametrically contradicting each other, about the means and methods with which you can become a full member or accelerate this process.
The principle of Ekşi Sözlük was so successful in Turkey that the site became a model for other, similarly structured sites such as Uludağ Sözlük or İnci Sözlük.
Legal consequences
In May 2006, the Istanbul Police Department applied to the Third Magistrate's Court in Istanbul to block access to Ekşi Sözlük for an indefinite period because the entries under the heading “marijuana” encouraged young people to use drugs. The website operator's lawyers were able to obtain the lifting of the domain blockade by the provider Türk Telekom .
The 3rd civil court in Istanbul's Eyüp district ordered blocking measures against Ekşi Sözlük on April 17, 2007, because the creationist Adnan Oktar had been insulted on the site. The lock was later lifted.
A ban issued by the court on September 29, 2008 was lifted three hours after it came into force.
On February 1, 2010, the journalist Faith Altaylı published a column entitled “The Meeting Place of Acidified Spirits”. Due to a lawsuit by the site operators who saw their authors vilified, Altaylı had to publish a reply on June 13, 2013. In return, Altaylı obtained the deletion of 97 entries by the 4th magistrate's court in Istanbul's Beyoğlu district, which offended him.
On April 21, 2011, the Turkish Telecommunications Authority sent the Internet service provider of the site an email requesting that the hosting services for Ekşi Sözlük and sourtimes.org be discontinued and that the site be taken offline. After the website operator had made this public on their website on May 4, 2011, the same day the director of the authorities Osman Nihat Şen told the pcextra.com.tr site that the site had "accidentally" made it onto the list of websites to be closed .
On June 21, 2011, 35 users of the site who had spoken out on religious topics were summoned by the police for "insulting spiritual values" after Adnan Oktar had filed a criminal complaint. Many users protested against the website operator's decision to provide the authorities with data that could be used to identify them. Many users logged off and previously deleted thousands of entries for fear of further reprisals. In addition, the site was boycotted by users for one day.
After the lecturer at Marmara University Yusuf Devran had seen himself disparaged by entries on the site, he filed criminal charges against two users of the site. The 25th Istanbul Peace Court suspended the trial on condition that the accused would not commit any further crimes in the next three years, otherwise the case would be reopened.
Trivia
The first entry on “Wikipedia” from November 1, 2001 reads: “I saw it on the Internet. Is something like ekşi sözlük. "
Web links
- Deniz Yücel : The side that knows everything. In: The daily newspaper . March 29, 2014, accessed on September 17, 2015 (abridged and revised preprint from Taksim is everywhere , Hamburg 2014).
- Access page
Individual evidence
- ↑ Alexa Internet : Alexa - Top Sites in Turkey
- ↑ a b Deniz Yücel : The page that knows everything , the daily newspaper, March 29, 2014, accessed on January 26, 2017
- ^ Uludağ Sözlük
- ↑ İnci Sözlük
- ↑ Milliyet : News from May 23, 2006 , accessed on September 17, 2015
- ^ Milliyet : News from April 17, 2007 , accessed on September 17, 2015
- ↑ Habertürk: Column from February 1, 2010 , accessed on September 17, 2015
- ↑ Habertürk: reply of June 13, 2010 , accessed on September 17, 2015
- ^ Habertürk: Report from August 3, 2010 , accessed on September 17, 2015
- ↑ Ekşi Sözlük: Entry from May 4, 2011 , accessed on September 17, 2015
- ↑ Archive.is: Archive capture of the report from May 4, 2011, created on September 13, 2012 ( memento from June 7, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on September 17, 2015
- ↑ Zapkolik: message from June 29, 2011 , accessed on September 17, 2011
- ↑ Haber 7: Report from July 23, 2013 , accessed on September 17, 2011
- ↑ Ekşi Sözlük: Entry from November 1, 2001 , accessed on September 17, 2011