[Foundation-l] getting hired to work on Wikipedia? Make that a "website processing specialist"

David Gerard dgerard at gmail.com
Thu Oct 2 14:14:07 UTC 2008


2008/9/30 Alison Wheeler <wikimedia at alisonwheeler.com>:

> In terms of trademark abuse it would be interesting (but ultimately
> pointless) to find out. There is 'automated processing' going on as they
> convert the URL into part of the text, but given that the user is -
> effectively - entering that name (or whatever other) then they could try
> to argue that it wasn't them that chose to use 'wikipedia' but the user,
> with them just re-formatting whatever the user had written.


Semi-automatic, possibly like the one spoken of in this blog post:

http://www.promotionalcodes.org.uk/750/wtf-coupon-code-for-wikipedia-i-dont-think-so/


- d.



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