I've found, while looking for copyvios, that large blocks of Wikipedia text are being used as search engine magnets for completely irrelevant things.
On 8/17/07, John Lee johnleemk@gmail.com wrote:
On 8/17/07, Andrew Gray shimgray@gmail.com wrote:
It worries me a little that I can spot Wikipedia text a mile off - our house style isn't that obvious, is it? - but it seems to be one of those little skills you pick up after a while. Very useful for marking school essays, I'm sure.
Anyhow, I was packing up some boxes today, and happened across the box for the Nokia 770 (a really useful little bit of kit, incidentally), which shows someone merrily using the device to chatter away to a friend on an instant messenger. For some reason, the friend is writing something to them about poetry.
I looked at the sentence. Something went click.
"Kim: A poem is a composition usually written in verse. Poems rely heavily on imagery, precise word choice, and metaphor, may be written in measures consisting of" [...]
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Literature&oldid=3562677
I'm used to seeing our content reused all over the place, but somehow I didn't expect to see fragments used as lorem-ipsum filler on a box cover...
OMG COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT
:p
Remarkably, it seems that Wikipedia was already being used so extensively by 2004. Back then, we were big, but...I didn't really expect the first example of lorem ipsum to date back so early.
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