On 6/2/07, Bryan Derksen bryan.derksen@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.