On 6/2/07, Charlotte Webb charlottethewebb@gmail.com wrote:
Aside from the obvious issue of copyvios, surely download.wikimedia.org also contains libelous content and intrusive personal information, about either the editors and subjects of Wikipedia, which had not yet been deleted or oversighted at the time of the dump.
Somehow I doubt there's any way to prevent the database dumps from being used for blatant evil, short of taking them offline.
Does that arguably make it an "attack site"? Or are the problematic portions of a database dump redeemed by the (overwhelmingly massive) amount of benign content they are diluted with? Or maybe the assumption that nobody will find it unless they already know exactly what they are looking for?
—C.W.