On 6/2/07, Bryan Derksen <bryan.derksen(a)shaw.ca> wrote:
Actually, yesterday in this thread I posted a link to
the Wikipedia
database dumps and pointed out that the deleted BJAODN pages were still
in them. So unless linking to Wikipedia database dumps is now
prohibited, it's not as simple as it seems.
Aside from the obvious issue of copyvios, surely
download.wikimedia.org also contains libelous content and intrusive
personal information, about either the editors and subjects of
Wikipedia, which had not yet been deleted or oversighted at the time
of the dump.
Somehow I doubt there's any way to prevent the database dumps from
being used for blatant evil, short of taking them offline.
—C.W.