Well, Wikipedia probably wouldn't be vulnerable,
but where individuals are
involved he could get a default judgement in a plaintiff-friendly UK court
for a no-show defendant in the US, with costs awarded (which is very
common in UK cases), and then use that as leverage in the US. This
technique has been tried against Usenet posters and worked well. Since
Wikipedia content is produced by individuals who are often identifiable it
would probably work as well on Wikipedia.
He may have to demonstrate standing to sue in UK courts, but that could be
as simple as selling books through Amazon.co.uk--which Wollmann does, as
it happens.
Yes, yes, the situation is hopeless. We're all going to be sued into
abject homeless poverty if we date to publish anything but the
innocuous pablum known to Western Civilization.
We'll begin by renaming it the Nicepedia.
--
Sean Barrett | You wouldn't understand. It's
sean(a)epoptic.com | a "root of all evil" thing.