Anthony DiPierro wrote:
On 12/24/05, Philip Sandifer snowspinner@gmail.com wrote:
On Dec 24, 2005, at 1:38 AM, Jake Nelson wrote:
Tony Sidaway wrote:
While I sympathise with your feelings, I don't see the problem here. You signed up with Wikipedia and someone copies your signup information on a copy of Wikipedia. So what?
It's a real issue, especially with the search & replace the Nazipedia did. Say I had the following text on my userpage:
I have been an administrator on Wikipedia since 2003.
On the Nazipedia, it would say:
I have been an administrator on Nazipedia since 2003.
Yep. Sucks, doesn't it? Unfortunately, if it's a consequence you're unwilling to accept in any circumstances, you should probably think twice about releasing your contributions under the GFDL.
-Phil Sandifer
Surely there's something wrong with taking someone's words and materially changing them while still attributing the words to that person. I have to believe it's illegal too, and not because of copyright law (such a simple sentence as "I have been an administrator on Wikipedia since 2003" can't be copyrighted anyway). You mention libel laws, and they'd probably be relevant.
Anyway, the problem here seems to be that Nazipedia is making these changes to the user pages, not that the database of user pages are out there in the first place.
I thought that issue had been solved already; after the Nazipedia regexed Wikipedia, a group of technical-minded people went around and inserted HTML comments in the wikitext to make it harder to do that.
Have they done it again?