[WikiEN-l] Off-topic, but I must share this

[Jay Litwyn]

(I do not think wikipedia will be allowed to drop ShareAlike, which pretty 
much means static license. If wikipedia's license changes at all, then it 
will be for matters of style.) Information on wajoop is clearly inferior for 
readability reasons, so I do not know why it would become popular as an 
authoritative resource. Even if a human starts cleaning up translations, the 
hundred and fifty thousand eyes on wikipedia will still outclass just about 
everyone but the big boys, and when it comes points of view that really need 
more understanding, even them. Getting listed on google is hard to avoid. Do 
not worry about competition from wajoop. If they do run commercials, then 
people will be drawn to their source, that is if they do not find wikipedia, 
first, which is probable outside of some security and word of mouth 
disaster -- citations on web pages and such.

"Angela Anuszewski" <angela.anuszewski at gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:f70a9ccf0904240554m7ee542ecv160cbb0151921796 at mail.gmail.com...
> So, what happens when this site starts profiting off material they lifted
> from Wikipedia without crediting the original authors and conforming to 
> the
> GFDL (or whatever license that Wikipedia winds up with?)
>
> Angela
>
> On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 8:23 AM, Jay Litwyn 
> <brewhaha at freenet.edmonton.ab.ca
>> wrote:
>
>> It looks like Portuguese coming through a mechanical translator like
>> http://babelfish.altavisa.com/ , especially all the references to a man 
>> as
>> "it".
>> _______
>> <a href="http://ecn.ab.ca/~brewhaha/">BrewJay's Babble Bin</a>
>> I snake that joined the Canadian feds would be a Mountie Python.
>>
>> "Phil Nash" <pn007a2145 at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message
>> news:2456DC0B0387417882F5BAEA7BC0C27C at mothere50f7f7b...
>>  > Whilst Googling for some information, I've just come across this:
>> >
>> > http://www.wajoop.com/James-Robertson-Justice
>> >
>> > which is clearly a machine translation of our
>> >
>> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Robertson_Justice
>> >
>> > I'm particularly fond of "The Blow of Blow of Chitty of Chitty" in the
>> > filmography.
>> >
>> > I defy anyone to read it without laughing as it's just kept me in 
>> > pleats
>> > for 20 minutes.
>> >
>> > Cheers
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