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Wikipedia's Content Ripped Off More Egregiously Than Usual
Ultraexactzz writes "Wikipedia's content is licensed under the GFDL, which permits such content to be copied with attribution — and Wikipedia is used to its content being copied and mirrored. However, a new website at e-wikipedia.net appears to have taken this a step further by mirroring the entire English Wikipedia — articles, logos, disclaimers, userpages, and all. Compare Wikipedia's About page with e-wikipedia.net's. The site even adds to Wikipedia's normally ad-free interface by including text ads." Just try logging in or actually editing an article, though, and you'll get the message "The requested URL /w/index.php was not found on this server. Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request." If there's credit here, I don't see it — sure looks like it's intentionally misleading readers.
Does anyone remember what Slashdot was like back when, well, back when some no-name doing something stupid on the internet wasn't a front-page headline?
Next up, the /. community discovers that notions like copyright, meaning the right of a work's creator to control how it's copied and distributed, is not such a bad idea after all.
Screw you, you smug cuntflap. Point me to where any member of "the /. community" has ever said copyright is bad, or that authors shouldn't have control of their work.
I wonder whether Ultraexactzz has any financial interest in the adverts on those pages?
Perhaps e-wikipedia.net is not the only thing intentionally misleading readers.
Phil
Wikipedia is doing the same thing: Jimmy Wales is most certainly profiting from the information that millions of well-meaning Internetizens innocently contribute. By the way, did you know that Jimmy Wales is an Internet pornographer? Yeah, his legion of zombie "editors" does a good job keeping such thoughtcrime out of his main Wikipedia article, but the truth is out there if you look a little. And, no, this photo isn't a fake. (Yes, that photo is safe for work. However, if you do an unfiltered Google image search for "bomis", the name of Wales's most successful porno site, then you'll find a few things that are decidedly not safe for work.)
The next time you feel like making a helpful contribution to a Wikipedia article, keep in mind that your work is creating a product used to shill for Jimbo Wales's yearly allowance. And God forbid you give money to the fundraising drive yourself! Who knows? Maybe there will be enough cash left over to buy more bandwidth after Jimbo's taken his cut - incidentally, what's a nightly hooker-and-coke binge cost these days? But, oops, I forgot: those hundreds of thousands of donated dollars also have had to pay the expenses of Jimbo's entourage, including the violent criminal Caryoln Doran, Wikimedia's Chief Operating Officer in 2007! (No lie: she's a thug who's done hard time for multiple offenses.) It seems that even the Wikizombie groupthink can't keep everything a secret.
So let's see: the thousands upon thousands of unpaid writers who author Wikipedia content are actually helping to solicit "donations" for a gang of pimps and ex-cons? Just who is this Jimmy Wales character, anyway? He's like an evil MySpace Tom. Heck, I wouldn't be surprised to learn that Wikipedia funds terrorism.
Now you know, and knowing is half the battle.
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omg another wikipedia is god/the devil argument. what is this, slashdot?
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