--- Jimmy Wales jwales@bomis.com wrote:
It is very poor form, at the very least, for them to call themselves "A Wikipedia". They may be a Wiki, they may be a Wiki Encyclopedia, but they are not "A Wikipedia".
I have some excellent news. After contacting the Diagonal Media Group, the parent company of PhatNav.com, they have replaced the claim that they are "A Wikipedia" with a more appropriate title for their pages. Wikipedia, and the Wikimedia Foundation, are, of course, still linked to at the end of each page.
Angela. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Angela ------------------------------------------------
From: "Diagonal Media Group Service Desk"
service@diagonalmediagroup.com
Subject: Trademark violation Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 21:00:54 -0400
Thank you Angela.
I'm forwarding this to my engineer.
The wording on the top of the pages was to have changed. I'm sure he can make this change.
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Angela wrote:
I have some excellent news. After contacting the Diagonal Media Group, the parent company of PhatNav.com, they have replaced the claim that they are "A Wikipedia" with a more appropriate title for their pages. Wikipedia, and the Wikimedia Foundation, are, of course, still linked to at the end of each page.
I'm still not happy with their site. Straight after the article, they display this text:
All content Copyright 2003 - PhatNav and Diagonal Media Group Inc.
Admittedly, there's a parenthesis after that:
(Except as noted on pages containing separately licensed content.)
but it's not noted anywhere that the particular page I'm looking at is "separately licensed content". At the bottom it says that "The Wikipedia is a project of the Wikimedia Foundation Inc.", and still at that point the reader still doesn't know that the article is from Wikipedia or even what Wikipedia is. Only the very last line gives the final information. Am I the only one who thinks this is almost deliberately obfuscated?
Timwi
--- Timwi timwi@gmx.net wrote:
Only the very last line gives the final information. Am I the only one who thinks this is almost deliberately obfuscated?
It's far from ideal, but they do at least mention Wikipedia and the GFDL, and they provide a link to the article. There are other sites listed at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Copies_of_Wikipedia_content_(low_degr...) which don't even manage to do that. It would be useful if more people could contact the sites listed there to convince them to better adhere to the GFDL.
Angela. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Angela
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