[Foundation-l] Baidupedia copyvio collections

[Henning Schlottmann]

Titan Deng wrote:
> We Chinese Wikipedians are now collecting Baidupedia articles which were
> copied from Chinese Wikipedia.

What is all that copyright, lawyer, enforcement, loose face stuff about?

Last time I checked, Wikipedia was about disseminating free knowledge. 
Unfortunately the projects are blocked by the Chinese government, so 
people of the peoples republic have no access to our content, not the 
the parts that are deemed dangerous by the government, not to the other 
parts. Now someone takes at least some of the uncontroversial content 
and makes it available by copying into Baidu.

Of course it would be nice if they would acknowledge the license and 
give proper attribution. But they can't - Wikipedia is banned and they 
can't name this source.

But as our mission is to distribute our knowledge, I believe this is the 
second best way to distribute our articles, and the best available until 
the forces that are open up the Great Firewall.

Ciao Henning [[user:h-stt]]