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.
The English Wiktionary with more than 56,000 articles should expect more
attention from spamdals than a project with only 2,000 articles. A
complete shutdown just doesn't seem like a constructive solution to the
problems. They may, as you suggest, need more sysops, but my guess is
that the problem is deeper than that. It could be an overly rigid
attitude toward rules.
Ec