[Foundation-l] Baidupedia copyvio collections

Fri Jun 13 07:50:23 UTC 2008

I don't think that the most important issue here is the revision
stuff. At least, it is not to me. What strikes me more is that any
adapted version would not be released to the GFDL again. Which means
that zhwikipedia can not take over that information again (with proper
history of course, to give the good example).

Having no authors on the website is something that is reversible, but
not having the license mentioned is not. The issue is much more
pressing imho. I think this would also give the chance to compliment
Baidu in some way: we would beleive that they will improve our text!

Best regards,

Lodewijk

2008/6/13 Ray Saintonge <saintonge op telus.net>:
> 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.
>
>
> Ec
>
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