It happens more and more often that books copy from Wikipedia. I found verbatim parts of an article I had written in a book published by John Wiley & Sons the other day. No attribution whatsoever.
It's a headache for the copyright team on en:WP because they have to figure out which came first. A. --- On Thu, 25/11/10, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > From: [email protected] <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: Re: [VereinDE-l] Bericht zur Verleihung der > Zedler-Me... > To: [email protected] > Date: Thursday, 25 November, 2010, 17:56 > In a message dated 11/25/2010 9:14:20 > AM Pacific Standard Time, > [email protected] > writes: > > > > I think it is very important for us to understand the > difficulties > > academics face if they want to join the Wikimedian > community. And maybe > > we should rethink about our strategy and approach on > working with > > academics. > > > > > > A similar thing occurred with someone within the community, > tagged an > article I had written with a "copyvio" which effectively > blanked the entire page, > replacing it with a large warning block. (How > outrageous I might add that > we would have such a thing.) > > Someone ELSE had copied *my* article to an external link. I > had added that > external link just to show how the subject of my article > was related to > other people, his parents, children, spouses, etc in a > genealogical content. > But my article had additional details. > > There was no attempt made to show that the EL had copied > me, just the > presumption that I had copied the EL. Similar to your > case Ting. But of course, > during the time that the tag was up, none of our five > billion readers could > see the article at all. > > Incidents like that "don't remove this tag until an > *administrator* has > reviewed it..." leave mental scars on editors. > > W > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
