[Foundation-l] GlobalMedia

Sun Jun 15 14:12:10 UTC 2008

2008/6/15 Nikola Smolenski <smolensk at eunet.yu>:
> At http://www.a1books.co.in/searchresult.do?keyword=art+of+shoe+making you can
> see the book (CD?) "Art of shoe making" by certain William Brown,  ISBN
> 8189940295, published by certain GlobalMedia in 2007. At
> http://books.google.com/books?id=2qUUla4IX4sC you can see the content of the
> book, which appears to be a bunch of articles copied from Wikipedia verbatim.
> No mention of Wikipedia, Wikimedia, GFDL or authors seems to exist anywhere
> in the book. See also other books from
> http://www.a1books.co.in/searchresult.do?vendorId=133-48-122-110-236-45-181-139
> which look very similar.
>
> (On a much less serious note, I am repeatedly adding entry on Latkey to
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Mirrors_and_forks/Jkl and they are
> repeatedly removing it :) )
>

That is a serious note since it means they are aware of the problem
and gives us some indication of their willingness to fix it. Not good.

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geni