Talk:Wikimedia Foundation Legal department/Archives/2018

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Illegal Commerical Use of Wikiversity Content

Latest comment: 6 years ago 1 comment1 person in discussion

Content from Wikiversity (stating incorrectly that the origin is Wikipedia) was used in a commerical context. Example

http://www.popflock.com/training?s=Version_Control/Public-Private-Versioning Commerical Use with Advertisments on right margin with no appropriate citation of the origin of the work.
Origin of the Content in Wikiversity:Version Control/Public-Private-Versioning

A reference URL to the origin of the content is missing. PopFlock seems to download Wikiversity article in large scale with bots and places advertisments with the copied content. Is is not a single page that was copied - all linked pages are downloaded as well and linked within PopFlock using the content with Advertisments on the right margin. I am not a lawyer but using Wikiversity content to earn money with it by placing advertisments with the copied Wikiversity content seems to be illegal to me. Maybe you know the procedures to deal with it. I assume all income generated with the Wikiversity content by PopFlock should be donated to the Wikifoundation. When I typed the keyword "public-private-versioning" into the search engine form, the copied version with Advertisments in PopFlock was displayed first in the results instead of the origin of the content in Wikiversity without advertisments. My contributions to Wikiversity were done as Open Educational Resources OER with especially NO commercial advertisments attached for the learners. At the time of this report currently AMAZ0N Advertisments are displayed on the right margin. At least

the correct citation or link to the origin (e.g. Version Control/Public-Private-Versioning. (2017, September 14). Wikiversity. Retrieved 09:59, September 14, 2017 from https://en.wikiversity.org/w/index.php?title=Version_Control/Public-Private-Versioning&oldid=1736089.) should be provided and
stated if something was changed in comparision to the origin.
(according to CC License) "Mention creator if supplied and attribution parties if designated in reasonable manner." This could be easily done by PopFlock if they add a link to the history of any MediaWiki page, that were copied by them for commericial use.

Regards, --Bert Niehaus (talk) 04:05, 28 April 2018 (UTC)

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