Nice to hear that is "a bluff". The bad practice about the content licenses isn't a new thing to fight as free knowledge movement and we could fight against it using our best resources -as volunteers-: social networking and fill the contact forms. Other ways, as lawsuits, could take a long time and resources and... *boring* legal-stuff.
Thanks everyone for your answers. Regards On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 1:41 PM, Saint Johann <[email protected]> wrote: > When discussing Everipedia one should also mention that the site in its > current form does not respect the copyrights of both English Wikipedia > editors and Commons uploaders: the articles and the files on this fork have > been contributed without any declaration about the licence of the original > works *anywhere*, the licence of the project itself is a general ‘CC’, > which is *not a licence*. > > Everipedia as far as we are concerned is a dishonest attempt by Silicon > Valley’s VC culture to co-opt the encyclopedic format into something that > could be sold in few years. Given the blatant copyright infringements on > the site, however, WMF should’ve made some commentary on the site given the > influx of the news about it in early December. > > On 11/12/2017 18:49, bawolff wrote: > > Hi, > > So everipedia.com looks like some sort of Wikipedia fork/competitor. > Larry Sanger is appearently involved with it (I guess he got bored of > Citzendium). They seem to be a for profit company that wants to be > more inclusionist than Wikipedia, and also raise money by selling > customized articles. > > They appear to be advertising that they are doing something with > "encylopedias" and "blockchain". However, they never specify what they > are doing, there are no white papers or technical details, which is a > good measure that something is BS. > > Probably they are trying to cash in on the hype around bitcoin. > Blockchain is an ill-defined enough concept that you can make almost > anything be "on the blockchain". Unless you are making a currency, it > is usually a solution looking for a problem. > > This definitely has nothing to do with Wikipedia or Wikimedia. > > -- > Bawolff > > On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 3:04 PM, Dennis Tobar <[email protected]> > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi everyone: > > I signed, the past week, the list of Tech Ambassador for Spanish Wikipedia. > My username is Superzerocool, a veteran user (over 12 years) in Wikimedia > movement, and in the real life I being an Engineer Informatic. I live in > Chile and I am currently part of the Board of Wikimedia Chile. > > In some chapter off-wiki talk (Telegram), an user share us a possibly > fake-news about the usage of blockchain to avoid the vandalism. > > As I see the article[1] (in Spanish), the news talks about Everipedia, a > startup related with Blockchain technology and how they use the blockchain > in English articles(?). > > As I see the article, the news is fake. > > Kindly, > > [1]https://www.cuartopoder.es/innovacion/tecnologia/2017/12/09/la-wikipedia-ya-no-se-podra-modificar-arbitrariamente-gracias-a-blockchain/ > > -- > Dennis Tobar Calderón > Ingeniero en Informática UTEM > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-ambassadors mailing > [email protected]https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-ambassadors mailing > [email protected]https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors > > -- Dennis Tobar Calderón Ingeniero en Informática UTEM
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