[Foundation-l] excluding Wikipedia clones from searching

Mike Dupont jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com
Fri Dec 10 07:05:55 UTC 2010


On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 6:02 PM,  <WJhonson at aol.com> wrote:
> In a message dated 12/9/2010 2:51:39 AM Pacific Standard Time,
> jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com writes:
>
>
>> yes it would be great. As i said, it could just include all pages
>> listed as REF pages and that would allow people to review the results
>> and find pages that should not belong.
>>
>> We also need to cache all these pages, best would be with a revision
>> history. It should be similar to or using archive.org.
>>
>
> We would not be able to do that for copyright reasons.
> Some if not most of the refs are still under copyright, we cannot make
> copies of those pages.

Google does it, archive.org (wayback machine) does it, we can copy
them for caching and searching i assume. we are not changing the
license, but just preventing the information from disappearing on us.

mike



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