Wikimedia news reports for Jan 2019

[ericbarbour]

IT'S REALLY SAD HA HA HA. There's damn little to report now. I wonder if Maher is keeping "radio silence"?

https://venturebeat.com/2019/01/09/wiki ... -articles/
https://mobilesyrup.com/2019/01/10/wiki ... wikipedia/

Might as well be the Scientologists or the Church of Euthanasia or the Subgeniuses. No one even bothers to read the press releases anymore.

[ericbarbour]

whatta you know: one day later, Google throws another huge pile of cash at the WMF. They are openly bragging now.

https://www.wired.com/story/google-wiki ... languages/

[Graaf Statler]

I hope they are not so stupid to think robot translated English texts change something in copyright matters. Because in European copyright the copyright is fixed to a text or pictures, it becomes automatic a part of it. You can't get ride of it or split it off. Even the smallest part is protected, because we have no fair use.
And Article 13 open the possibility to give platform a fine or to put a site on black if it contains copyright. Nice, a clever lawyer can even put the English Wikipedia on black in Europe's code Napoleon system now. Just convince the judge the English wikipedia is with this tool also under your jurisdiction because it translate in your national language and WMF is again a sitting duck. Just pull the trigger, use that case law of that good German professors, and you always win in every country with a Code Napoleon legal system, and Wmf will be convicted, for 100% sure. Well done WMF lawyers! The European law firms will be thankful to you!

I real didn't know sure a stupide people existed on this world.