[Wikipedia-l] Re: Copyright violations at download.wikimedia.org

Jimmy Wales jwales at wikia.com
Sat Jun 4 15:15:37 UTC 2005


Roger Luethi wrote:
> I find plenty of copyvios that are several days old, and I've had to
> undo the work of weeks or months because some people just copy and
> paste stuff from other web sites (no, not WP mirrors) without being
> caught. That is a very unpleasant experience for everyone involved,
> especially if other editors kept working on the text in good faith.

I wonder what we can do to improve the situation.

> <rant>
> Some comments on [[m:Avoid Copyright Paranoia]] ain't exactly helping.
> </rant>

Indeed.

--Jimbo




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