[Wiktionary-l] The Japanese Wiktionary have been locked temporarily

Fri Feb 18 09:00:40 UTC 2005

Ray Saintonge wrote:
 > This is a regretable situation. Still I find it hard to believe that a
 > project with only 2,000 articles would have such a problem with 
vandalism.
 >
 > Effective policies are built up while people edit, and will often change
 > over time. New people will want to have an opportunity to participate in
 > the development of policies. Setting policies before people can edit may
 > just make things more difficult.
 >
 > I don't know what special problems you have with Japanese copyright law,
 > but my experience has been that wiktionaries would have fewer problems
 > with copyrights than wikipedias.

cookfire wrote:
 > When reading the eG's message, I was also wondering what is so special
 > about Japanese copyright law that it makes building up a free dictionary
 > harder than in other languages. I must say that I do understand the
 > problem with vandalism. Since the summer the English Wiktionary gets a
 > lot of vandalism and spamvertising too. The months before that the
 > problem was far less. The French, Dutch and Spanish Wiktionaries are
 > relatively calm as far as vandalism is concerned, but maybe the Japanese
 > Wiktionary attracts Chinese spammers as well. What I see as a solution
 > is to create a broad base of sysops, so obvious vandalism and
 > spamvertising can be killed on the spot (and thus only wastes the time
 > of one person). Of course the trick is to find dependable people who are
 > able and want to consacrate a lot of time to the project. It takes a bit
 > of time for them to show up, but they do exist.

I can understand your wonders or doubts. But I can say it again, that is 
our consensus. We need time for reconstruction. Now I have tried to 
recruit contributors and arouse their interest. Please wait for a while.

Thanks for your comments, Ec and Polyglot.

--eG

P.S. I'm not a specialist of law, so I can't explain precisely, but 
Japanese community have considerd that GFDL under Japanese law is 
stricter than under American one.
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