[Foundation-l] Fwd: Re: [VereinDE-l] Bericht zur Verleihung der Zedler-Me...

[Andreas Kolbe]

It happens more and more often that books copy from Wikipedia. I found verbatim parts of an article I had written in a book published by John Wiley & Sons the other day. No attribution whatsoever.

It's a headache for the copyright team on en:WP because they have to figure out which came first.

A.

--- On Thu, 25/11/10, WJhonson at aol.com <WJhonson at aol.com> wrote:

> From: WJhonson at aol.com <WJhonson at aol.com>
> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: Re: [VereinDE-l] Bericht zur Verleihung der Zedler-Me...
> To: foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org
> Date: Thursday, 25 November, 2010, 17:56
> In a message dated 11/25/2010 9:14:20
> AM Pacific Standard Time, 
> wing.philopp at gmx.de
> writes:
> 
> 
> > I think it is very important for us to understand the
> difficulties 
> > academics face if they want to join the Wikimedian
> community. And maybe 
> > we should rethink about our strategy and approach on
> working with 
> > academics.
> > 
> > 
> 
> A similar thing occurred with someone within the community,
> tagged an 
> article I had written with a "copyvio" which effectively
> blanked the entire page, 
> replacing it with a large warning block.  (How
> outrageous I might add that 
> we would have such a thing.)
> 
> Someone ELSE had copied *my* article to an external link. I
> had added that 
> external link just to show how the subject of my article
> was related to 
> other people, his parents, children, spouses, etc in a
> genealogical content.  
> But my article had additional details.
> 
> There was no attempt made to show that the EL had copied
> me, just the 
> presumption that I had copied the EL.  Similar to your
> case Ting.  But of course, 
> during the time that the tag was up, none of our five
> billion readers could 
> see the article at all.
> 
> Incidents like that "don't remove this tag until an
> *administrator* has 
> reviewed it..." leave mental scars on editors.
> 
> W
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