[Foundation-l] Copies of Wikipedia's articles found on Knol

Nicolas Guérin nguerin.zurich at gmail.com
Mon Jul 28 07:52:03 UTC 2008


After a fast research (about 20 minutes) on Knol, i found several copies
from Wikipedia's articles:

* http://knol.google.com/k/alexandre-nouvel/wikipedia/2ggz2lqudrlgu/2# copy
of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia

* another http://knol.google.com/k/-/wikipedia/3lr953e1lumvz/8# copy of the
same http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia

* http://knol.google.com/k/rui-moura/knol/2q6bmd4rdpda7/2# copy of
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knol

* http://knol.google.com/k/benjamin-katlama/new-york-city/34hdx7ks0jha3/23#copy
of
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City

* http://knol.google.com/k/seth-rivard/barack-hussein-obama/3snb2eak10854/9#copy
of
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Hussein_Obama

* http://knol.google.com/k/harish-maleh/florida/122dkfj6v50rl/3# copy of
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida

* http://knol.google.com/k/nathan-awrich/russia/3hc8it3ozukl6/9# copy of
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia

* http://knol.google.com/k/meir-shraga/israel/1p4n1ii9gkg1v/5# copy of
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel

* http://knol.google.com/k/maxime-seligman/france/32qv6k5e4j8yx/4# copy of
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/France

I found also 10 more and i'm quite sure this is not an exhaustive list. The
problem is that for each article content, the GFDL licence is replace by a
CC-3.0 licence with only one author: the guy who made the copy-paste (and
not those who wrote the article).

             Guérin Nicolas


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