Anthony wrote:
> (although I still haven't seen the WMF step up
> to the plate and make it easy for people to make a full history fork, or
> even to download all the images)
You'll find full history dumps of almost all wikis at
http://download.wikimedia.org/
Although not trivial, downloading all
The statute supports that as well, providing a private right of action
and civil remedy. It's not entirely that cut and dry (there are
certain restrictions that must be met) but yeah, it appears that in
some cases TOS violations can be illegal.
-Dan
On Jun 22, 2009, at 7:49 PM, Mark Wagner w
On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 14:35, Ray Saintonge wrote:
> Brian wrote:
>> That is against the law. It violates Google's ToS.
>>
>> I'm mostly complaining that Google is being Very Evil. There is nothing we
>> can do about it except complain to them. Which I don't know how to do - they
>> apparently bel
Anthony wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 7:54 AM, John Vandenberg wrote:
>
>> Whether Google is good or evil is off-topic, and irrelevant to boot.
>>
>
> Whether or not they have a right to exclude bots isn't.
>
> Also worth noting, Project Gutenberg has digitised less than 30,000
>> books sinc
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 8:32 AM, John at Darkstar wrote:
> There are some posts about a new video solution, and even more posts
> that ... err ... isn't quite correct, but without any official news
> about it its impossible to tell the newspapers whats correct and whats not.
>
As far as I know, th
There are some posts about a new video solution, and even more posts
that ... err ... isn't quite correct, but without any official news
about it its impossible to tell the newspapers whats correct and whats not.
I especially like an article saying "from Wikimedia Foundation who made
Wikipedia". I
David Gerard wrote:
> 2009/6/21 Ray Saintonge :
>> Sure, transparency is a problem, but its absence alone does not imply
>> fraud. It hurts the Iranian authorities even more if the vote count is
>> accurate because nobody believes them.
>
> Evidence the numbers were made up: humans are not very g
>
>
> And thus, flaggedrevs would not provide nearly any added
> disincentive for vandals, but would add workload for the
> good faith editors, and slow down content production.
>
>
> Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
>
>
This is not likely to happen. Our experiences on de.WP show that the change
in the work p
> What I *am* saying - and I suspect none of my countrymen
> would dispute me in this - is that in Finland vandals are
> vastly overrun by people of good faith editing and cleaning
> after the vandals. So much so that the vandals effect is
> easily negligible. Negligible over the long term, but
