[Wikipedia-l] Re: www.biography.ms is illegally using Wikipedia content

[Anthere]

Funny that you mention it. Yesterday, I was looking for an old pdf 
version of Donella Meadows work. Had a hard time finding it because all 
what was on the net about her was copies of the wikipedia articles (mine 
in good part, so this was not what I was looking for). One of the most 
proeminent copy was precisely this website.


It was also one of the first time I regretted articles existed in 
wikipedia... because I could not find the original paper I was looking 
for, because the web was so much infested by the wikipedia articles...

I suddently regretted Google was not able to distinguish that all the 
articles were the same, and hidding other articles which are unique, but 
simply less visible. I actually wonder if this is not a bit problematic. 
It looks as if the search system was not able to handle this properly 
any more.


Ant

PS : I must not forget to add the pdf link to the article so I can find 
it next time.


Maury Markowitz a écrit:
> I was doing a little googling this morning while the wiki was down, and 
> came across a reference to a site, www.biography.ms.
> 
> The entire site is simply a bad scraping of the wikipedia, with all 
> attributions removed.
> 
> Maury