James wrote:
Looking at some comments on Wikipedia's mirrors
and forks, many people have
found that their user pages were mirrored in other sites, and ultimately
their personal information out of control. So is it possible for you to stop
putting the articles in the user namespace in the dumps?
For several months we've had a version of the dump available with discussion and
user pages excluded, which is recommended for mirror-type usage.
Please see
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Data_dumps
Note that we *ABSOLUTELY WILL NOT* stop producing dumps that do include those
pages. They *MUST* be available for complete distributed backup of data and
other legitimate usage. As always, don't include anything on Wikipedia that you
wouldn't ever want to see copied.
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)