[WikiEN-l] Our content gets *everywhere*

[John Lee]

On 8/17/07, Andrew Gray <shimgray at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> It worries me a little that I can spot Wikipedia text a mile off - our
> house style isn't that obvious, is it? - but it seems to be one of
> those little skills you pick up after a while. Very useful for marking
> school essays, I'm sure.
>
> Anyhow, I was packing up some boxes today, and happened across the box
> for the Nokia 770 (a really useful little bit of kit, incidentally),
> which shows someone merrily using the device to chatter away to a
> friend on an instant messenger. For some reason, the friend is writing
> something to them about poetry.
>
> I looked at the sentence. Something went click.
>
> "Kim: A poem is a composition usually written in verse. Poems rely
> heavily on imagery, precise word choice, and metaphor, may be written
> in measures consisting of" [...]
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Literature&oldid=3562677
>
> I'm used to seeing our content reused all over the place, but somehow
> I didn't expect to see fragments used as lorem-ipsum filler on a box
> cover...


OMG COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT

:p

Remarkably, it seems that Wikipedia was already being used so extensively by
2004. Back then, we were big, but...I didn't really expect the first example
of lorem ipsum to date back so early.

Johnleemk