[WikiEN-l] Please remove user data and talk pages from database dumps!

Fri Dec 30 03:47:34 UTC 2005

On 12/30/05, MacGyverMagic/Mgm <macgyvermagic at gmail.com> wrote:
> What are we supposed to do about Nazipedia, they're basically twisting
> our words and still attributing those words to us. While separate
> dumps would solve future problems it does nothing to address the issue
> at hand.
>
> I have no problem being on there, as long as they clearly state (VERY
> clearly) it's a copy of Wikipedia and don't change anything about the
> page.

Users should be encouraged to subst [[Template:Userpage]]
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Userpage) onto their user page,
and should even modify the HTML that it generates. That should make it
very difficult for people to search and replace "Wikipedia" with
something else.

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Stephen Bain
stephen.bain at gmail.com