James wrote:
Looking at some comments on Wikipedia's mirrors and forks, many people have found that their user pages were mirrored in other sites, and ultimately their personal information out of control. So is it possible for you to stop putting the articles in the user namespace in the dumps?
For several months we've had a version of the dump available with discussion and user pages excluded, which is recommended for mirror-type usage.
Please see http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Data_dumps
Note that we *ABSOLUTELY WILL NOT* stop producing dumps that do include those pages. They *MUST* be available for complete distributed backup of data and other legitimate usage. As always, don't include anything on Wikipedia that you wouldn't ever want to see copied.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)