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| As work on {{bp|Project Overgrow}} continues, so does Bulbapedia itself. Despite this, some of you may have noticed that we have been having some issues with the server as of late, with Bulbapedia being inaccessible from time to time. This is due to a glitch in the system which we have been investigating to its fullest in order to eliminate as quickly as possible.
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| Through our continued prosperity, however, we have garnered the attention of a less-than-favorable faction. Wikia's "The Pokémon Encyclopedia" has recently been found to have taken the content of various [[Pokémon Platinum Version|Bulbapedia articles]], changed one or two words (while at the same time remaining formatted overall in the same way), and posted it as their own. While this is not the fault of their administrators at all, the fact that, when this is pointed out to them, the administrators do nothing about the copied content or attempt to hide our comments about it is a very disturbing fact.
| | The "war" with Wikia is over, meaning everyone can quit spamming their recent changes and vandalizing their pages. You know, the stuff we expressly told you '''''not''''' to do. |
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| The Pokémon Encyclopedia, as a Wikia wiki, is licensed under the standard <span class="plainlinks">[http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html GNU Free Documentation License]</span>, while Bulbapedia's content is licensed under the <span class="plainlinks">[http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License]</span>, incompatible with Wikia's license. Bulbapedia's license requires strictly that the content is attributed to Bulbapedia and its users, and additionally, the "noncommercial" aspect of the license requires that no money is made off of the content. Wikia's own About page clarifies that it is a commercial entity, while Bulbapedia's ads are in place to keep the massive server we have running.
| | Bulbapedia's templates continue to be updated. Next up on the line should be the remaining infobox templates, beginning with those dealing with locations in the Pokémon world. If you have an idea on how to update these templates, please create it as a subpage in your userspace, and bring it to the attention of one of our many {{bp|administrators}}. |
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| Bulbapedia and Bulbagarden's administrators heavily '''''<u>discourage</u>''''' vandalism of The Pokémon Encyclopedia, despite their refusal to comply to our request to remove the copied content. However, we do encourage dialog with those in charge. So please, ask them, why are you taking content that we worked on?
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| <p style="text-align: right;">[[Bulbapedia:Messages from the Editor|Read more]] | [[Bulbapedia:Messages from the Editor|Past messages]]</p> | | <p style="text-align: right;">[[Bulbapedia:Messages from the Editor|Read more]] | [[Bulbapedia:Messages from the Editor|Past messages]]</p> |
Revision as of 09:20, 20 April 2009
April 20
In order to keep Bulbapedians up to date, this message has been changed.
The "war" with Wikia is over, meaning everyone can quit spamming their recent changes and vandalizing their pages. You know, the stuff we expressly told you not to do.
Bulbapedia's templates continue to be updated. Next up on the line should be the remaining infobox templates, beginning with those dealing with locations in the Pokémon world. If you have an idea on how to update these templates, please create it as a subpage in your userspace, and bring it to the attention of one of our many administrators.
Read more | Past messages
