Ray Saintonge wrote:
This is a regretable situation. Still I find it hard to believe that a project with only 2,000 articles would have such a problem with
vandalism.
Effective policies are built up while people edit, and will often change over time. New people will want to have an opportunity to participate in the development of policies. Setting policies before people can edit may just make things more difficult.
I don't know what special problems you have with Japanese copyright law, but my experience has been that wiktionaries would have fewer problems with copyrights than wikipedias.
cookfire wrote:
When reading the eG's message, I was also wondering what is so special about Japanese copyright law that it makes building up a free dictionary harder than in other languages. I must say that I do understand the problem with vandalism. Since the summer the English Wiktionary gets a lot of vandalism and spamvertising too. The months before that the problem was far less. The French, Dutch and Spanish Wiktionaries are relatively calm as far as vandalism is concerned, but maybe the Japanese Wiktionary attracts Chinese spammers as well. What I see as a solution is to create a broad base of sysops, so obvious vandalism and spamvertising can be killed on the spot (and thus only wastes the time of one person). Of course the trick is to find dependable people who are able and want to consacrate a lot of time to the project. It takes a bit of time for them to show up, but they do exist.
I can understand your wonders or doubts. But I can say it again, that is our consensus. We need time for reconstruction. Now I have tried to recruit contributors and arouse their interest. Please wait for a while.
Thanks for your comments, Ec and Polyglot.
--eG
P.S. I'm not a specialist of law, so I can't explain precisely, but Japanese community have considerd that GFDL under Japanese law is stricter than under American one. __________________________________ Let's Celebrate Together! Yahoo! JAPAN http://pr.mail.yahoo.co.jp/so2005/