[Wikimedia-l] Copyright infringement - The real elephant in the room

[Nathan]

On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 1:48 PM, Michael Snow <wikipedia at frontier.com>wrote:

> On 11/13/2013 10:39 AM, Nathan wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 4:53 AM, Lodewijk <lodewijk at effeietsanders.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Marco: I agree, we had also issues on the Dutch Wikipedia - these have
>>> been
>>> around for ages, the English Wikipedia is just less aware of them.
>>>
>> Not sure if you meant this how it sounds, but the English Wikipedia
>> community is acutely aware of copyright problems and have undertaken many,
>> many large and complicated cleanup tasks of the sort Marco described.
>>
> I think he meant that the English Wikipedia community is less aware of the
> fact that we face these sorts of large-scale challenges in many other
> languages as well. In other words, the antecedent to "them" is "issues on
> the Dutch/Italian/etc. Wikipedia", rather than "copyright issues"
> generally. Most people participating in other languages are reasonably
> aware when major concerns surface from the English Wikipedia; people
> participating only in English often haven't a clue about the concerns being
> dealt with in other languages.
>
> --Michael Snow
>
>
That makes sense, thanks for clearing that up for me.