[WikiEN-l] Our content gets *everywhere*

[Josh Gordon]

I've found, while looking for copyvios, that large blocks of Wikipedia text
are being used as search engine magnets for completely irrelevant things.

On 8/17/07, John Lee <johnleemk at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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
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