Just the other day, acting in good faith, I went through about 50 articles on the English Wikipedia changing [[Strand, England]] to [[The Strand]], and moved the article there. It turns out I was completely wrong, and it was right originally. Ought I be banned for this too?
Seriously, we have enough malicious vandals on Wikipedia to focus on without also banning decent editors. Regardless of how much node may annoy people in the #Wikipedia IRC channel, as far as I know he is a good contributor to the encyclopedia itself. If making a mistake like this constitutes vandalism and is a bannable offence, then almost every sysop on Wikipedia ought be banned. People break the Main Page, stub messages and things like that all the time. Is this more serious because it takes more effort to fix? Or have you all made up your minds that node did this maliciously? Didn't this raise a valid concern about the vagueness of the copyrights for these con-lang wikis? I feel that, as Wikipedia grows, we need to be more and more vigilent for copyright violations, and a hard-line policy is imperative. The larger we grow, the larger the target we are for holders of violated copyrights.
~Mark
On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 22:14:44 -0700, Mark Williamson node.ue@gmail.com wrote:
As I said before, I was not aware of this.
My statement that I did what I did in good faith still stands (though obviously I will not do it ever again, in fact chances are I'll never post a copyvio notice anywhere again).
--node
On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 06:08:48 +0100, Angela_ beesley@gmail.com wrote:
I've just spoken to Sonja about this. Please see below for the end of an email she sent me this morning regarding the copyright status of the language.
Angela.
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Sonja Elen Kisa marraskuu1978@yahoo.com Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 00:45:44 -0400 (EDT) Subject: toki pona Wikipedia To: angela@wikimedia.org
[...]
Anyway, the Toki Pona language is obviously released under the GFDL.
Sincerely,
Sonja
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