Re: swik.net is copying planetpostgresql content

For what it's worth, this is my take on it as well, and I agree with all
points below.

On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 5:46 PM, Greg Sabino Mullane <greg(at)turnstep(dot)com>
wrote:

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> > It seems this wiki is fetching all Planet PostgreSQL content and adding
> > anything to their own wiki - without even a link back to planet.
> > Any planet link is rewritten to match the wiki structure.
>
> Not sure what you mean by this? EVery article I looked at does link back to
> the originating blog. All the links in my article, for example, still work
> exactly as I wrote them:
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> http://swik.net/PostgreSQL/Planet+Postgresql/Greg+Sabino+Mullane%3A+DBD%3A%3APg+advanced+tracing+options/b3sdf
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> or: http://tinyurl.com/54lg28
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> > In addition they change any license to: "All original text is available
> > as Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike".
>
> That means any text *not copied from somewhere else* is under CCA-S. In
> other words, anything created on their site. Which seems perfectly valid
> to me.
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> > This behavior gives (of course) top positions in any search engine
> > result - but i'm not sure that all planet feeds find this amusing.
> > Just spoke with Devrim about that and his opinion is to let the
> > community decide.
>
> What makes you think that they get "top position" in a search engine
> result?
> Searching for "DBD::Pg tracing" gives my original article as the top
> result,
> with swik.net not even showing up at all.
>
> They are simply parsing the RSS feed, and they *do* link back to
> planetpostgres,
> including the "Continue reading" bit, so I'm not seeing this as a really
> big deal.
> If they weren't linking back to PP at all, this might matter, but because
> they
> do, this is actually a good thing and probably helps PP's Google rating.
>
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> Greg Sabino Mullane greg(at)turnstep(dot)com
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