Hi WMF Analytics,
In my web searches in the past few months I am seeing an increasing number
of websites that have republished Wikimedia content, sometimes in ways that
I suspect are in violation of trademark and/or Creative Commons licensing
rules. (My guess is that these sites make money through advertising that
they place on their sites.) Has WMF observed any negative effects in web
traffic that can be attributed to other websites reusing Wikimedia content
and/or trademarks?
It might be interesting if WMF can obtain statistics from web search
providers regarding how many times users click on search engine links to
sites that reuse Wikimedia content and/or trademarks.
Pine
(
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )