[WikiEN-l] NY Times: Wired Editor Apologizes for Copying from Wikipedia in New Book

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As a brief aside, when you sign up at wired, they send you a 
verification email.
In that verification email... they paste your password.
Bizarre.  You'd think something like "Wired" would be a bit more 
security conscious than to do that.


-----Original Message-----
From: Durova <nadezhda.durova at gmail.com>
To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Wed, Jun 24, 2009 3:28 pm
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] NY Times: Wired Editor Apologizes for Copying 
from Wikipedia in New Book










Well, taking a first stab at this.  Here's my letter to Wired:
----

Per the recent New York Times admission that one of your editors 
plagiarized
content from Wikipedia uncredited, I respectfully request credit for 
media
work of mine that Wired has reproduced without credit.

http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/24/editor-of-wired-apologizes-for-copying-from-wikipedia-in-new-book/

This reproduces a photograph in the digitally restored version I 
generated
through painstaking restoration:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sfearthquake3b.jpg

My restoration of this image was selected as a "featured picture", which
designates Wikipedia's best content.  It ran on Wikipedia's main page 
on 16
March 2008: one month before your uncredited reproduction of my 
volunteer
labor.

I seek no compensation other than credit.  Please post credit as 
follows:
"Restoration by Lise Broer (Durova)".

Thank you very much,

Lise Broer

San Diego, California.


On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 3:16 PM, Durova <nadezhda.durova at gmail.com> 
wrote:

> Slight correction.  It was Time Magazine that ran my Brandeis 
restoration
> uncredited.  The one Wired ran uncredited was the San Francisco 
Earthquake
> of 1906.
>
> http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2008/04/dayintech_0418
>
> Wired gives sole credit to the original source:
> *Image: H.D. Chadwick/National Archives and Records Administration* * 
*
>
>
> Here's my restoration:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sfearthquake3b.jpg
>
> The unrestored version:
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sfearthquake3.jpg
>
> Any suggestions what to do about this?
>
> -Lise
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 2:57 PM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> 
wrote:
>
>> 2009/6/24 Durova <nadezhda.durova at gmail.com>:
>>
>> > Wired also used one of my featured picture restorations without 
credit.
>>
>>
>> Credit for the original, or credit for the restoration?
>>
>>
>> - d.
>>
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