(I do not think wikipedia will be allowed to drop ShareAlike, which pretty
much means static license. If wikipedia's license changes at all, then it
will be for matters of style.) Information on wajoop is clearly inferior for
readability reasons, so I do not know why it would become popular as an
authoritative resource. Even if a human starts cleaning up translations, the
hundred and fifty thousand eyes on wikipedia will still outclass just about
everyone but the big boys, and when it comes points of view that really need
more understanding, even them. Getting listed on google is hard to avoid. Do
not worry about competition from wajoop. If they do run commercials, then
people will be drawn to their source, that is if they do not find wikipedia,
first, which is probable outside of some security and word of mouth
disaster -- citations on web pages and such.
"Angela Anuszewski" <angela.anuszewski(a)gmail.com> wrote in message
news:f70a9ccf0904240554m7ee542ecv160cbb0151921796@mail.gmail.com...
So, what happens when this site starts profiting off
material they lifted
from Wikipedia without crediting the original authors and conforming to
the
GFDL (or whatever license that Wikipedia winds up with?)
Angela
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 8:23 AM, Jay Litwyn
<brewhaha(a)freenet.edmonton.ab.ca
wrote:
It looks like Portuguese coming through a
mechanical translator like
http://babelfish.altavisa.com/ , especially all the references to a man
as
"it".
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I snake that joined the Canadian feds would be a Mountie Python.
"Phil Nash" <pn007a2145(a)blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message
news:2456DC0B0387417882F5BAEA7BC0C27C@mothere50f7f7b...
Whilst Googling for some information, I've
just come across this:
http://www.wajoop.com/James-Robertson-Justice
which is clearly a machine translation of our
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Robertson_Justice
I'm particularly fond of "The Blow of Blow of Chitty of Chitty" in the
filmography.
I defy anyone to read it without laughing as it's just kept me in
pleats
for 20 minutes.
Cheers
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