[p2p-research] publishing wikipedia articles for money, is that a scam?

[Michel Bauwens]

I haven't seen this before, and didn't notice it myself,

if you are inspired to a comment about this, I would love to publish,

Michel

On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 7:07 AM, Michael Gurstein <gurstein at gmail.com>wrote:

> On a perhaps related note... I've been away from Facebook for almost two
> months (behind the Great Firewall) and coming back I've noticed that FB
> appears somehow automagically to have reaped a huge swath of entries from
> Wikipedia and established these as individual pages (within their walled
> garden) available for the various activities internal to FB--"liking",
> "friending", "commenting" etc.etc.
>
> I noticed this because, as part of my re-entry I did some searching
> internally on FB (on "community informatics") and discovered that not only
> was there a FB CI "group" which was set up some time ago by colleagues
> http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=10811405363 but there was also now a
> CI "page"
>
> http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=10811405363#!/pages/Community-informat
> ics/111193338905174<http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=10811405363#%21/pages/Community-informat%0Aics/111193338905174>which seemed to have no evident "owner" and was
> explicitly taking text from the Wikipedia CI entry
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_informatics .
>
> Tootling around on other Wiki subject areas I found a number of similar
> such
> Wiki authored "pages".
>
> Since by design the flow of content from the net (Wikipedia) to FB is only
> one way and thus any content generated for example, commenting on or
> enhancing the Wiki derived FB page is within the FB "garden" this seems to
> me to be a very insidious form of capture of the commons for the private
> interest of FB.
>
> I haven;t seen this commented on here or elsewhere although I might have
> missed it over the last couple of months or maybe I've missed a nuance
> somewhere.
>
> Comments?
>
> Mike
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: p2presearch-bounces at listcultures.org
> [mailto:p2presearch-bounces at listcultures.org] On Behalf Of M. Fioretti
> Sent: Friday, November 26, 2010 4:02 PM
> To: p2presearch at listcultures.org
> Subject: Re: [p2p-research] publishing wikipedia articles for money, is
> that
> a scam?
>
>
> On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 06:38:35 AM +0700, Michel Bauwens
> (michelsub2004 at gmail.com) wrote:
> > see kasper souren's article here at http://guaka.org/2010/11/25/
> > books-llc-scam-amazon
>
>
> This is not news, there was a practically identical story months ago, if
> not
> in 2009 (and obviously I can't find the link now :-( )
>
> > for me, this would be legitimate, given the license, but not
> > necessarily ethical, depending on how the benefit sharing happens with
> > wikipedia and its authors,
>
> agree 100%. This is exactly the reason why it is good, as I explained in a
> couple of threads here already, to have copyright. IF/WHEN an author
> doesn't
> want to allow this exploiting (and I have nothing at all against those who
> do it, I publish things with the same license
> myself) because it would damage its ability to produce that or other works,
> copyright gives a basis to stop these people.
>
> Marco
>
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