[Foundation-l] Baidupedia copyvio collections

Thu Jun 12 09:12:26 UTC 2008

2008/6/12 Waerth <waerth at asianet.co.th>:

> IMHO, if they do not give proper attribution and do not respond (which
> doesn't surprise me as I said earlier) and we do not have the resources
> to do a lawsuit. There is only one way out. Make a stink about it and
> make them loose face. In my experience here in Thailand this is a last
> resort option here in this part of Asia. But most people here in this
> region are more terrified to loose their face than anything else. If
> they feel that they will loose face over an issue they will most
> probably come and talk to get things straightened out. If not and we
> make them loose face though, they will surely never talk to us again!
> Like I said it would be a last resort and I have used this option myself
> a couple of times with amazing results.

IIRC Florence tried this at Wikimania 2007 and it didn't do anything.

- d.