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On Sun, Sep 26, 2021 at 2:34 AM Gerard Meijssen <[email protected]> wrote: > Hoi, > Facts are in and of themselves not copyrightable. Collections of data may > be copyrighted.We choose not to and as a result Wikidata is the powerhouse > that it has become.The CC-by-sa license is our license of choice for > Wikipedia however, the way it has been enforced so far has been defensive, > we are quite happy when our material is used. > > At Wikidata we are long past the point where the majority of the data is > from a Wikipedia. From day one Wikidata has provided essential services to > every Wikipedia, Wikidata can provide superior services to Wikipedia. > Because like Commons, we have to maintain the data only once and have it > available everywhere. Wikidata is instrumental in sychronising death > information among our projects. It has been shown over and over again to > have more complete information as can be found in Wikipedia lists and > categories. Wikipedians choose to stick with their arguably substandard > practices. > > The notion that a Google or an Amazon are not capable of extracting facts > from a Wikipedia is silly. They have the capacity and the skills and the > software to do just that. Wikidata provides them additional information > making their information more complete. They have their reasons to be model > citizens and contribute to the Wikimedia Foundation. We now provide paid > for services to them making their bot activity less of a strain to our > services and provide them a (paid for) service. > Thanks, > GerardM > > On Sun, 26 Sept 2021 at 04:32, The Cunctator <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Sorry for not being explicit; the connection is that protection of >> copyleft would be inconvenient to major endowment donors such as Google and >> Amazon. WikiData is a Wikimedia project that converts copylefted content >> into (what Wikimedia asserts to be) copyright-free content. >> >> On Thu, Sep 23, 2021 at 5:40 PM Andy Mabbett <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> On Thu, 23 Sept 2021 at 19:27, The Cunctator <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>> > It's really disappointing to me that the Structured Data work has been >>> used to blow up Wikipedia's copyleft. >>> >>> 1. Your message has nothing to do with the endowment >>> >>> 2. You offer no evidence that "the Structured Data work has been used >>> to blow up Wikipedia's copyleft." >>> >>> 3. You do not explain what you mean by "blow up Wikipedia's copyleft." >>> >>> If you wish to discuss copyright and/or structured data, please start >>> a new thread; and be clear there about the point you wish to make. >>> >>> -- >>> Andy Mabbett >>> @pigsonthewing >>> https://pigsonthewing.org.uk >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wikimedia-l mailing list -- [email protected], guidelines >>> at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and >>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l >>> Public archives at >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/message/ME3ZHE4EKPUG6XA3N53YWGZMCE7XBZKN/ >>> To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia-l mailing list -- [email protected], guidelines >> at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l >> Public archives at >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/message/RWN3E4ORWWLDHQ7PBX675KBQV5BAUPBV/ >> To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list -- [email protected], guidelines > at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > Public archives at > https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/message/BN5BMT6YPILRPMZJQX4MJQDUL7DXP7BV/ > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
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