[Foundation-l] Copies of Wikipedia's articles found on Knol

[Dan Rosenthal]

Interesting, that there's one by Nathan Awrich. Nathan, you're on
foundation-l right? Surely you'd know better than that? You wrote 22 knols,
most if not all of which are copies of the relevant Wikipedia
articles....why?

-Dan

On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 3:52 AM, Nicolas Guérin <nguerin.zurich at gmail.com>wrote:

> After a fast research (about 20 minutes) on Knol, i found several copies
> from Wikipedia's articles:
>
> * http://knol.google.com/k/alexandre-nouvel/wikipedia/2ggz2lqudrlgu/2#copy
> of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia
>
> * another http://knol.google.com/k/-/wikipedia/3lr953e1lumvz/8# copy of
> the
> same http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia
>
> * http://knol.google.com/k/rui-moura/knol/2q6bmd4rdpda7/2# copy of
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knol
>
> *
> http://knol.google.com/k/benjamin-katlama/new-york-city/34hdx7ks0jha3/23#copy
> of
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City
>
> *
> http://knol.google.com/k/seth-rivard/barack-hussein-obama/3snb2eak10854/9#copy
> of
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Hussein_Obama
>
> * http://knol.google.com/k/harish-maleh/florida/122dkfj6v50rl/3# copy of
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida
>
> * http://knol.google.com/k/nathan-awrich/russia/3hc8it3ozukl6/9# copy of
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia
>
> * http://knol.google.com/k/meir-shraga/israel/1p4n1ii9gkg1v/5# copy of
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel
>
> * http://knol.google.com/k/maxime-seligman/france/32qv6k5e4j8yx/4# copy of
> http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/France
>
> I found also 10 more and i'm quite sure this is not an exhaustive list. The
> problem is that for each article content, the GFDL licence is replace by a
> CC-3.0 licence with only one author: the guy who made the copy-paste (and
> not those who wrote the article).
>
>             Guérin Nicolas
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Dan Rosenthal