[Foundation-l] Baidupedia copyvio collections

Thu Jun 12 22:30:59 UTC 2008

Andrew Gray wrote:
> If we demanded those mirrors do a lot of work, on the other hand, we'd
> get a much lower success rate.
>
> The three obvious options for giving attribution:
>
> a) Do what everyone else does, and link to the Wikipedia article
> histories. Except that's meaningless for most of the readers - the
> vast majority of them who live in mainland China won't be able to
> follow the link, and the GFDL probably frowns a bit on a list of
> authors which you aren't allowed to see...
>
>   
I'm inclined to favour this option.  For the users of Baidu outside of 
the PRC there will of course be no problems.  PRC residents will still 
get their usual results to indicate a blocked site.  Each time it will 
be a reminder to them that something is wrong, and they will be more 
inclined to attempt access through alternate channels.  We shouldn't 
underestimate the ability of the average PRC computer geek to circumvent 
blocks.


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