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Datum: Sun, 15 Jun 2008 16:25:05 +0200
Von: Henning Schlottmann <h.schlottmann(a)gmx.net>
An: foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Betreff: Re: [Foundation-l] Baidupedia copyvio collections
You're
setting up a false dichotomy here. The options are not "Allow
Baidu to do whatever they want" and "Deny China any access to
Wikipedia articles", with nothing in between.
According to Titan Deng,
that's what the zh-Wikipedians demanded.
No, that's definitively wrong. We search every possibility to let china get access of
our content, even part of it. We are even content if Baidu just mention that some content
are under GFDL, we don't even demand that they note the content is from Wikipedia. The
reason why we are so much concerned about Baidu is that we see here a serious threat
against us by the policy of Baidu, as I have already described in other replies.
They can't: They can't acknowledge that
content came from a banned
source and they certainly won't adopt a policy of free licenses, not
even for a small part of their content. They want to own and control all
their content.
Oh they can. There are quite a number of articles on Baidu with a source remark of
Wikipedia. There is at least one case we know of that an official chinese government
website remarks the source as Wikipedia.
PS: I'm from Germany. Almost twenty years ago, the
Berlin Wall and the
Iron Curtain fell. ...
The situation is a different one. Take parallels in history is mostly dangerous and
incorrect. China is not a communist country any more though its governing party call
itself communist. And Baidu is a company, which misuses law (or rather the lack of law in
this case) to make business.
Greetings
Ting
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