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(typical threat, but a shallow one in this case - it's easy to get around any attempts by Wikimedia to technically control the GFDL corpus and cut off GFDL corpus access providers) |
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GetWiki discourages the construction of a proper fork by allowing users to fetch articles from Wikipedia on demand, whenever they access a page which doesn't exist. This means that a large proportion of the content hosted by a GetWiki site is actually controlled by Wikipedians. What's more, Wikimedia would be within its rights to cease service to any GetWiki site, leaving them out in the cold with a useless leech script. Why not just [http://download.wikimedia.org/ download the database] and end your dependence on Wikimedia? -- [[User:Tim Starling|Tim Starling]] 11:50, 23 Jun 2004 (EEST) | GetWiki discourages the construction of a proper fork by allowing users to fetch articles from Wikipedia on demand, whenever they access a page which doesn't exist. This means that a large proportion of the content hosted by a GetWiki site is actually controlled by Wikipedians. What's more, Wikimedia would be within its rights to cease service to any GetWiki site, leaving them out in the cold with a useless leech script. Why not just [http://download.wikimedia.org/ download the database] and end your dependence on Wikimedia? -- [[User:Tim Starling|Tim Starling]] 11:50, 23 Jun 2004 (EEST) | ||
:This is | :This is bullshit but it does prove [[Wikimedia]] is a menace to the [[GFDL corpus]]. Wikipedia is not "within its rights to cease service" under some reasonable interpretations of the [[GFDL]]; Since very few [[trolls]] are blocked in both places, the availability of current articles both ways is one way [[Wikimedia]] avoids being called on its frequent [[GFDL violation]]s. It is easy enough to suck the appropriate articles in through various read-only proxies that the [[developer vigilantiism|vigilante]] [[usurper]]s don't know about, and never will know about. They can't track all the tools trolls use. | ||
:As for "control", so what? The point is that [[GFDL corpus access provider]]s can cooperate, so that anyone else could feed [[Wikinfo]] if [[Wikimedia]] cut it off fascistically. That would put the new feeder in power position, as it could serve any other [[mirror web site]] that [[Wikimedia corruption]] deemed a threat to its monopoly. | :As for "control", so what? The point is that [[GFDL corpus access provider]]s can cooperate, so that anyone else could feed [[Wikinfo]] if [[Wikimedia]] cut it off fascistically. That would put the new feeder in power position, as it could serve any other [[mirror web site]] that [[Wikimedia corruption]] deemed a threat to its monopoly. | ||
:[[Wikipedia]] unrighteously uses a mass of [[GFDL corpus]] content that was donated "to the GFDL itself" not "to Wikipedia" - no ownership rights were ever ceded to [[Wikimedia]] in particular, and even new contributions are not so deeded. So the rights of those contributors and those who you call "wikipedians" are not the same thing, and attempts to make them the same thing are easy enough to slap down legally. We're watching all your mistakes. | :[[Wikipedia]] unrighteously uses a mass of [[GFDL corpus]] content that was donated "to the GFDL itself" not "to Wikipedia" - no ownership rights were ever ceded to [[Wikimedia]] in particular, and even new contributions are not so deeded. So the rights of those contributors and those who you call "wikipedians" are not the same thing, and attempts to make them the same thing are easy enough to slap down legally. We're watching all your mistakes. | ||