Here: http://tinyurl.com/nwyss
"An American expatriate called 'Calton' apparently doesn't like the political userboxes. 'Kill them, kill them with fire, nuke them from orbit, salt the earth behind them,' he wrote on one deletion-review page. Then 'Misza13' of Poland cried foul on 'Calton': 'I'd like to note that, in my humble opinion, your vote ('Kill them ... ') is an example of Wikihate. Please, don't hate.''
Kirill Lokshin
"Wikipedia is considered controversial because of the novel way it collates information. Users can open any entry and edit it at will.
There was a political scandal last month as it emerged staff at the US Embassy had changed biographies of US senators." http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/print/news/5049586.shtml
Pete, on track
On 3/3/06, Kirill Lokshin kirill.lokshin@gmail.com wrote:
Here: http://tinyurl.com/nwyss
"An American expatriate called 'Calton' apparently doesn't like the political userboxes. 'Kill them, kill them with fire, nuke them from orbit, salt the earth behind them,' he wrote on one deletion-review page. Then 'Misza13' of Poland cried foul on 'Calton': 'I'd like to note that, in my humble opinion, your vote ('Kill them ... ') is an example of Wikihate. Please, don't hate.''
Great... and the countervandalism unit gets a mention, too.
Marvel have set up their own wiki, http://www.marvel.com/
They're claiming copyright on all contributions, and asking stuff be referenced in issues or movies, it's vetted by editors, but I see a couple of problems. Is there a point where some of our material gets copied over, and if so what happens re the GFDL, and is there a possibility they could claim copyright infringement on Wikipedia's part for articles on their properties?
Steve block
Claiming copyright on Wikipedia material would be a violation of GFDL. If they claim copyright on everything on their site, and they copy our stuff onto their site, then we can send them a letter they've violated GFDL and asking them to stop. That's all there is to it.
SCZenz
On 3/3/06, Steve Block steve.block@myrealbox.com wrote:
Marvel have set up their own wiki, http://www.marvel.com/
They're claiming copyright on all contributions, and asking stuff be referenced in issues or movies, it's vetted by editors, but I see a couple of problems. Is there a point where some of our material gets copied over, and if so what happens re the GFDL, and is there a possibility they could claim copyright infringement on Wikipedia's part for articles on their properties?
Steve block
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On 3/3/06, SCZenz sczenz@gmail.com wrote:
Claiming copyright on Wikipedia material would be a violation of GFDL. If they claim copyright on everything on their site, and they copy our stuff onto their site, then we can send them a letter they've violated GFDL and asking them to stop. That's all there is to it.
It's not even just a violation of GFDL, it's just a normal copyright violation. The copyright to our articles is held by the contributors of those articles. If they copy them, well, they're breaching our individual copyrights.
Steve
Steve Bennett wrote:
On 3/3/06, SCZenz sczenz@gmail.com wrote:
Claiming copyright on Wikipedia material would be a violation of GFDL. If they claim copyright on everything on their site, and they copy our stuff onto their site, then we can send them a letter they've violated GFDL and asking them to stop. That's all there is to it.
It's not even just a violation of GFDL, it's just a normal copyright violation. The copyright to our articles is held by the contributors of those articles. If they copy them, well, they're breaching our individual copyrights.
But what happens if someone copies over stuff from wikipedia, or somebody adds to wikipedia and to there? It looks like it's impossible to access the history at the Marvel site without registering, but it might be needed to ascertain potential copyright violations. Users might dump text from there into wikipedia. We're already fighting a rearguard battle against some users who think they can simply copy material from Marvel's published character guides, is there a way to register an account which wikipedians can use to verify the dates things were added?
Steve Block
On 3/5/06, Steve Block steve.block@myrealbox.com wrote:
But what happens if someone copies over stuff from wikipedia, or
Copyvio
somebody adds to wikipedia and to there? It looks like it's impossible
If Marvel is claiming "copyright", then they would probably be breaking Marvel's terms and conditions.
to access the history at the Marvel site without registering, but it might be needed to ascertain potential copyright violations. Users might dump text from there into wikipedia. We're already fighting a rearguard battle against some users who think they can simply copy material from Marvel's published character guides, is there a way to register an account which wikipedians can use to verify the dates things were added?
I didn't understand this last question, can you clarify? Are you talking about a way of verifying when certain text was added to a WP article?
Steve