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Re: No-indexing of project-space pagesOn Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 12:16 PM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
<cimonavaro@...> wrote: > Umh, this might be a stupid question, but since I don't know any > better, I'll ask anyway... > > What would be wrong with having sectioned dumps? With > mainspace and article talk pages in one dump section, and > Userpages, userspace subpages and user talk pages in > in another section of the dump, and a third dump for all > the wonderful "Wikipedia" namespace pages and their > talk pages. > > That way everyone can pick and mix... What a great idea! (which is why it's already done that way :) ... Also, I don't believe that most mirrors which actually use the dumps copy anything but the articles though I don't have any data to back that up) _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@... To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l |
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Re: No-indexing of project-space pages2008/7/30 Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell@...>:
> What a great idea! > > (which is why it's already done that way :) ... Also, I don't > believe that most mirrors which actually use the dumps copy anything > but the articles though I don't have any data to back that up) Depends. Some take the lot on the basis that it gives the more content to put adds next to. And if we go noindex on all that stuff it will stop getting whacked by the duplicate content penalty. -- geni _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@... To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l |
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Re: No-indexing of project-space pagesgeni wrote:
> 2008/7/30 Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell@...>: > >> What a great idea! >> >> (which is why it's already done that way :) ... Also, I don't >> believe that most mirrors which actually use the dumps copy anything >> but the articles though I don't have any data to back that up) >> > > Depends. Some take the lot on the basis that it gives the more content > to put adds next to. And if we go noindex on all that stuff it will > stop getting whacked by the duplicate content penalty. > > > > I wonder if I am reading this correctly. Do I understand correctly that those who do not just download our non-mainspace (you know the real wikipedia stuff of articles like of an encyclopaedic value), do it with full knowledge that isn't really encyclopaedic matter, but download it anyway? On the gripping hand the arguments I have heard against adjusting the licencing of the non-mainspace pages has been on the basis of not providing free web-hosting, so everything has to be copy-left. Somehow I don't think that equation passes the sniff test. Particularly in the light of the fact that the MediaWiki help-pages are already definitely *not* copy-left, but decisively PD. Yours, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@... To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l |
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Re: No-indexing of project-space pagesOn Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 3:35 PM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
<cimonavaro@...> wrote: [snip] > Do I understand correctly that those who do not just > download our non-mainspace (you know the real wikipedia > stuff of articles like of an encyclopaedic value), do it with > full knowledge that isn't really encyclopaedic matter, but > download it anyway? They have the option to download only articles. We can't guess their understanding or motivation. I think that they are just grabbing the first thing that works is the more obvious theory. ;) > On the gripping hand the arguments I have heard > against adjusting the licencing of the non-mainspace > pages has been on the basis of not providing free > web-hosting, so everything has to be copy-left. > > Somehow I don't think that equation passes the > sniff test. > > Particularly in the light of the fact that the > MediaWiki help-pages are already definitely > *not* copy-left, but decisively PD. You're free to make your contributions more liberally licensed, just not less. If you want to post information about yourself under a restrictive license, there are lots of low to no cost web hosts that allow it. So long as you're a contributor the projects are very permissive about making your userpage just a link to your website, as far as I've seen. Beyond the "avoiding free webhosting", keeping the project spaces freely licensed contributes to keeping freely licensed content part of the culture and superordinate goal. In any case, if nazi-pedia is really trying to make it look like you're a contributor there, they could do amply well without copying your Wikipedia userpage. :) Licensing is not the right tool to use against fraud. It's a wrong fit. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@... To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l |
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Re: No-indexing of project-space pages2008/7/30 Jussi-Ville Heiskanen <cimonavaro@...>:
> This is all very interesting. > > I wonder if I am reading this correctly. > > Do I understand correctly that those who do not just > download our non-mainspace (you know the real wikipedia > stuff of articles like of an encyclopaedic value), do it with > full knowledge that isn't really encyclopaedic matter, but > download it anyway? > Probably. Wikipedia mirrors have various approaches. The bulk content to hang ads around approach would consider non project namespace stuff to be worth having. Others looking to run encyclopedic mirrors less so. Still others take selected pages to pad existing content. Then there are various sites that use wikipedia to feed Markov chain generators or as blog posts. -- geni _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@... To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l |
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Re: No-indexing of project-space pageshttp://www.realtech.co.za/realwiki.php?title=User_talk:WilyD
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 3:45 PM, <WJhonson@...> wrote: > Are you saying the non-article-space isn't under the license? > > Otherwise I'm not following what you're saying. > > Perhaps someone can link to ANY mirror at all, that is actually publishing > the talk pages. If there is one, I'd like to know what is it exactly with an > exact example. > > IF there is a mirror already publishing the talk pages, with their history > of course, that all of these is rather moot isn't it. > > Will Johnson > > > > **************Get fantasy football with free live scoring. Sign up for > FanHouse Fantasy Football today. > (http://www.fanhouse.com/fantasyaffair?ncid=aolspr00050000000020) > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > WikiEN-l@... > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@... To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l |
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Re: No-indexing of project-space pages2008/7/30 Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell@...>:
> In any case, if nazi-pedia is really trying to make it look like > you're a contributor there, they could do amply well without copying > your Wikipedia userpage. :) Licensing is not the right tool to use > against fraud. It's a wrong fit. Speaking of which, I vaguely remember that en.metapedia.org used to be a mirror/fork, but now doesn't appear to be. (Many articles appear to be Wikipedia-originated and are labeled as such and licensed under GFDL.) Anyone got any idea what's up with that? - d. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@... To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l |
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Re: No-indexing of project-space pagesOn Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 4:10 PM, Wily D <wilydoppelganger@...> wrote:
> http://www.realtech.co.za/realwiki.php?title=User_talk:WilyD And there are several others I found a while back that were mirroring my user/usertalk pages. I don't have the exact links handy. -- Chris Howie http://www.chrishowie.com http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Crazycomputers _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@... To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l |
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Re: No-indexing of project-space pagesGregory Maxwell wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 3:35 PM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen > <cimonavaro@...> wrote: > [snip] > >> Do I understand correctly that those who do not just >> download our non-mainspace (you know the real wikipedia >> stuff of articles like of an encyclopaedic value), do it with >> full knowledge that isn't really encyclopaedic matter, but >> download it anyway? >> > > They have the option to download only articles. We can't guess their > understanding or motivation. I think that they are just grabbing the > first thing that works is the more obvious theory. ;) > Who says we can't guess? And why do you follow that with what is palpalby just your personal guess? I don't think it follows Ochams Razor to assume that people in search of profit would make a special exception in the case of Wikipedia and act in a directly naîve way. That is simply asking too much from credulity; even if I know some net-rippers-off can be astoundingly stupid. There can be a presumption that most of them do one or the other, but assuming they do the naïve choice by default, is "the most ridiculous thing I ever heard". > >> On the gripping hand the arguments I have heard >> against adjusting the licencing of the non-mainspace >> pages has been on the basis of not providing free >> web-hosting, so everything has to be copy-left. >> >> Somehow I don't think that equation passes the >> sniff test. >> >> Particularly in the light of the fact that the >> MediaWiki help-pages are already definitely >> *not* copy-left, but decisively PD. >> > > You're free to make your contributions more liberally licensed, just not less. > > If you want to post information about yourself under a restrictive > license, there are lots of low to no cost web hosts that allow it. So > long as you're a contributor the projects are very permissive about > making your userpage just a link to your website, as far as I've seen. > > Beyond the "avoiding free webhosting", keeping the project spaces > freely licensed contributes to keeping freely licensed content part of > the culture and superordinate goal. > I think you missed the part where I was asking *specifically* about _copy-left_ and *not* "freely licenced". No biggie, easy to miss. Then again, maybe the situation is more nuanced, and the question is ont really about less or more "free" but about the precise licence, where people can even disagree about which licence is the most "free". I certainly can consider many "copy-left" licences to be "encumbered" in certain specific manners, and still wrap my head around those peoples mindset that contend that going whole-hog PD is letting downstream users hobble the content that is derivative later. The fact is that choosing any specific licence as a requirement or even choosing some minimum which has to be compatible with the chosen licence for non "content" pages, does constitute a restriction; though arguendo a restriction against allowing restriction. > In any case, if nazi-pedia is really trying to make it look like > you're a contributor there, they could do amply well without copying > your Wikipedia userpage. :) Licensing is not the right tool to use > against fraud. It's a wrong fit. Well, of course here you are extrapolating that something that I said a while ago, was a hidden reference in a post that did not explicitly not reference it at all. Nicely done. Hand on my heart, I didn't even think about the Nazipedia thing in talking about userspace licencing this time. I in fact didn't think about this at all in personal terms; I was genuinely trying to explore the real licencing landscape we have to work with, not just you and me, but all of our contributors. Take that as you will, believe it or not. Yours, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@... To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l |
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Re: No-indexing of project-space pagesThere is finite lag time, which in some cases I've seen be quite large
(~1 year, though I'll never find it). The user_talk page of mine is pretty recent, though. WilyD On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 4:39 PM, <WJhonson@...> wrote: > But these links are only the *current* version of the talk page. > > So the fix to "libel" or whatever is simply deletion, and a new dump/load > which is essentially the exact same fix in-wiki. So no-indexing talk would do > exactly nothing to address the supposed concern. > > You would still have new libel showing up in-wiki, and depending on the > dump/load timing that would or wouldn't get saved for another day or whatever on > mirrors, and then vanish. No indexing doesn't make it appear or go-away from > google under that scenario. And when it appears, it doesn't make it stay longer > or shorter. > > If I'm wrong, why am I wrong? > > Will Johnson > > > ************** > Get fantasy football with free live scoring. Sign > up for FanHouse Fantasy Football today. > > (http://www.fanhouse.com/fantasyaffair?ncid=aolspr00050000000020) > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > WikiEN-l@... > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@... To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l |
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Re: No-indexing of project-space pagesOn Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 4:25 PM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
<cimonavaro@...> wrote: > Who says we can't guess? And why do you follow that with > what is palpalby just your personal guess? > > > I don't think it follows Ochams Razor to assume that people > in search of profit would make a special exception in the case > of Wikipedia and act in a directly naîve way. That is simply asking > too much from credulity; even if I know some net-rippers-off can > be astoundingly stupid. There can be a presumption that most of > them do one or the other, but assuming they do the naïve choice > by default, is "the most ridiculous thing I ever heard". Having talked to some of the less brillant people trying to set up mirrors I think you may be attributing too much of the outcome to intent if you're attributing any of the outcome to intent at all. ;) We do have quite a few recourses against mirrors who behave unreasonably. For example, we could hold them to the strict letter of their licensing requirements, so frequently followed sloppily. It would probably be helpful if we more explicitly discouraged mirror sites from copying the user-pages. I think the download page currently says "you probably don't want this one" but we don't really ask them not to. I think we'd rather make it clear what we do and don't want before we can decide that someone is probably being malevolent. >> You're free to make your contributions more liberally licensed, just not less. >> >> If you want to post information about yourself under a restrictive >> license, there are lots of low to no cost web hosts that allow it. So >> long as you're a contributor the projects are very permissive about >> making your userpage just a link to your website, as far as I've seen. >> >> Beyond the "avoiding free webhosting", keeping the project spaces >> freely licensed contributes to keeping freely licensed content part of >> the culture and superordinate goal. >> > > I think you missed the part where I was asking *specifically* > about _copy-left_ and *not* "freely licenced". No biggie, easy > to miss. I very much did notice you said specifically copyleft... which resulted in the very first sentence. "You're free to make your contributions more liberally licensed, just not less." If you want to say your userpage is also available as public domain you're welcome to do so. So the actual requirement is that you must offer your userpage contributions under the GFDL but you can also publish those contributions under any number of additional licenses. So you're perfectly free to moot the copyleft on your own stuff by offering non-copyleft free license terms... which is why I took your commentary to be free licensing vs not, rather than say much about copyleft. [snip] > The fact is that choosing any specific licence as a requirement > or even choosing some minimum which has to be compatible > with the chosen licence for non "content" pages, does > constitute a restriction; though arguendo a restriction > against allowing restriction. Sure, it's a restriction that you must at least offer a particular license over your userpages. But its a restriction which improves consistency, discourages particular kinds of wasteful discussion (zomg, you can't copy from my user page! yours is incompatibly licensed!), and which generally removes a flexibility which has little relevance to our mission. (though perhaps more relevance to someone looking for a free webhost! :) ) >> In any case, if nazi-pedia is really trying to make it look like >> you're a contributor there, they could do amply well without copying >> your Wikipedia userpage. :) Licensing is not the right tool to use >> against fraud. It's a wrong fit. > > Well, of course here you are extrapolating that something > that I said a while ago, was a hidden reference in a post > that did not explicitly not reference it at all. Nicely done. Communication accomplished well results in an understand of both the direct and the implied. .... But here I was just guessing since I wasn't quite sure where you were going. > Hand on my heart, I didn't even think about the Nazipedia > thing in talking about userspace licencing this time. I in > fact didn't think about this at all in personal terms; I was > genuinely trying to explore the real licencing landscape > we have to work with, not just you and me, but all of our > contributors. Take that as you will, believe it or not. Gladly. .. and in any case.. The concern that Nazipedia can copy our userpages in a way that makes our contributors look like nazipedia-supporters is a valid concern... it's just not not one which I think we can or should address with licensing. Sorry for jumping ahead of you incorrectly. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@... To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l |
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Re: No-indexing of project-space pagesOn Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 4:24 PM, Chris Howie <cdhowie@...> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 4:10 PM, Wily D <wilydoppelganger@...> wrote: >> http://www.realtech.co.za/realwiki.php?title=User_talk:WilyD > > And there are several others I found a while back that were mirroring > my user/usertalk pages. I don't have the exact links handy. Thats a live mirror, not someone working from a dump. [http://www.realtech.co.za/realwiki.php?title=Special:Recentchanges] Live mirrors are forbidden... but I think almost all of the bad behaving mirror sites that I've seen are live mirrors. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@... To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l |
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Re: No-indexing of project-space pagesOn Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 4:58 PM, <WJhonson@...> wrote:
> In a message dated 7/30/2008 1:54:35 PM Pacific Daylight Time, > gmaxwell@... writes: >> I think we'd rather make it clear what we do and don't want >> before we can decide that someone is probably being malevolent.>> > So under the license we are now going to say, "we won't stop you from copying > this page, but if you do we'll punish you for it." > > Uh.... I see a problem with this approach. I don't. "All content here is freely available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation license [...] However it can be confusing to the public and irritating to our users if you set up duplicate copies of portion of these dumps designated as "user pages" on publicly available websites. Irritated users may criticize your activities as unethical if not technically forbidden due to the confusion, and may scrutinize your business activities to a much greater degree than they would otherwise. Especially careless use of Wikipedia "user pages" may result in your site fraudulently misrepresenting itself as being explicitly endorsed by one or more Wikipedia contributor, potentially opening you to litigation since no such endorsement is conveyed by Wikipedia's free content licensing. As such, if you are simply interested in making an online mirror we recommend that you only use [fileX] and leave [fileY] to people producing backups, historical archives, private mirrors, or performing research." On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 5:00 PM, <WJhonson@...> wrote: > In a message dated 7/30/2008 1:58:41 PM Pacific Daylight Time, > gmaxwell@... writes: >> Live mirrors are forbidden... but I think almost all of the bad >> behaving mirror sites that I've seen are live mirrors.>> > Fact ? > That live mirrors are forbidden? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Mirrors_and_forks#Remote_loading _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@... To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l |
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Re: No-indexing of project-space pages2008/7/30 <WJhonson@...>:
> In a message dated 7/30/2008 1:58:41 PM Pacific Daylight Time, > gmaxwell@... writes: >> Live mirrors are forbidden... but I think almost all of the bad >> behaving mirror sites that I've seen are live mirrors.>> > Fact ? > That live mirrors are forbidden? Yup. They're blocked with an article header that looks like [[Leech (computing)]] and an explanatory message. - d. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@... To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l |
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Re: No-indexing of project-space pagesDavid Gerard wrote:
> 2008/7/30 <WJhonson@...>: > >> In a message dated 7/30/2008 1:58:41 PM Pacific Daylight Time, >> gmaxwell@... writes: >> > > >>> Live mirrors are forbidden... but I think almost all of the bad >>> behaving mirror sites that I've seen are live mirrors.>> >>> > > >> Fact ? >> That live mirrors are forbidden? >> > > > Yup. They're blocked with an article header that looks like [[Leech > (computing)]] and an explanatory message. > > > - d. > not because of any metaphysical reason it would be forbidden to be as up to date as wikipedia itself is (and party to all the good and evil that entails), as far as content is involved. Us being a "live" site rather than one where content is "published" after a central editorial process, is one of the cornerstones that allows us to operate. Or has at least been. We will duly enter uncharted waters, once we progressively tighten the definition of what us being a "live" site means... Yours, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@... To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l |
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