[pp.int.general] Wikipedia pages

[Andrew Norton]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

On 3/25/2010 3:39 AM, Reinier Bakels wrote:
>> cut and paste hard facts shamelessly from Wikipedia. This applies
> 
> Shamelessly? Is this a plea for respectting copyright? ;) Wikpedia is
> provided under a Creative Commons licence.
> 
> Or do you accuse them of plagiarism? Plagiarism is often misudnerstood,
> but it is *not* a copyright issue. It relates to the connection between
> the audience and the author, not the connection between an infringing
> author with the original author.

I think the point, Reinier, is more that most journalists nowadays do
nothing more than a basic search, and if it's on wikipedia, all the
better and quicker. How many obit. articles have there been based on
wikipedia saying someone's died, or quoting as fact things which are
fake, but because wikipedia says it, it's 'true'.

Trying to score points and sound smart, really doesn't work when it was
THAT obvious what Rick meant.

Andrew

> 
> reinier
> ____________________________________________________
> Pirate Parties International - General Talk
> pp.international.general at lists.pirateweb.net
> http://lists.pirateweb.net/mailman/listinfo/pp.international.general

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (MingW32)
Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/

iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJLq5vGAAoJECjjuYTW3X5HIGIH/RK2bbO61cLAS3nu9YAx7LXg
0kbNQ4Z8zIFx/0l3jXrYfw79JAyzJpTNFHGxDdCLqJCID+jB4Vwc4hSOovWABlnv
sY0Yeb62xdDuNQjy1YqCHADAMMW+EAurT+EF8pFJ9cMycDR9g1TTQ41NFl4QtZ9D
N5uoe2zZXdGXDctH2n4CZWhbyupM6L09DSLaAnobr+oT1lKuyY/UA+9So4BI5Zod
Ka7Ru3U5CWfqrAso4Gl+miu4xxda9s4qedlLvzSXScYdQmYim7J4k6yi+JnXhaac
noVYu89x0SAgQHK3WNbkVPcv+/QG27aOh8ljVlvbP1uaasfHScFR6RvZMWUS4LQ=
=LJls
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----