On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 5:43 PM, David Gerard <dger...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> As I say, I love Wikipedia, but putting on media boots I can see us as >> a problem. > > This doesn't mean their opinion has a leg to stand on, however. > > We do this stuff so people can use it, but it's a bit off to turn > around and claim we should be paying them for the privilege. There is a page on Wikipedia giving advice on how to "refactor" the info we get from elsewhere. I can't recall the page now. In practice I think it's *very* hard not to steal a line. I think we've all had the experience of being set homework at school and looking it up in an encyclopedia and then shifting the words around to make it look different. I would suggest (whilst still being an avid Wikipedian) that our articles will often be a form of finding stuff that could conceivably have monetary value and then spurting it out for free. Again, I love that we do that. But I do have an unsettling feeling. Some moral qualms. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
