On 6/2/07, Charlotte Webb <charlottethewebb(a)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.