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It's impossible to copyright simple ideas, like looking back into your archives round numbers of time. Which is good, because I'm totally stealing this idea from Scientific American.
Five years ago: In the Media by Eddie891 and Bluerasberry
Five years ago we were (yet again!) talking about Misplaced Pages in courts of law, starting with the darkly humorous tale of the worst lawyer ever and the tragic consequences thereof:
- On July 18 the New York Post reported on an "utterly incompetent" lawyer who was accused of using Misplaced Pages to defend her client, TaiChin Preyor. Preyor was arrested for the fatal stabbing of Jami Tackett during a drug-related robbery in 2004. Preyor's new lawyers claimed that "It appears she relied on Misplaced Pages, of all things, to learn the complex in and outs of Texas capital punishment." The lawyer had, among other things, the Misplaced Pages article titled "Capital punishment in Texas" printed out and labeled "research". Preyor was executed on July 27.
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- On July 26, Estonian Public Broadcasting reported that the Supreme Court of Estonia decided that checking the Misplaced Pages article Mil Mi-28 is an inadequate method for determining whether to levy a tariff for civilian versus combat helicopter parts. The story began in 2015, when parts for Russian helicopters arrived at Muuga Harbor in Estonia from Dubai. The company shipping them claimed that they were parts for civilian helicopters; however, it was eventually discovered that they were intended for combat helicopters. In response to the sale, Europe's Tax and Customs board fined the company 1,600 euros, citing a Misplaced Pages page. The company promptly sued, and the Supreme Court eventually found that Misplaced Pages was not a sufficiently credible source to justify an order of punishment.
- These are just the most recent developments in a long history of lawyers and courts using Misplaced Pages as a source. The Signpost covered the beginning of this trend in a UK court case in 2006, and further cases in 2007. The latter was prompted by a New York Times article that year by Noam Cohen, a frequent contributor to its Misplaced Pages-related stories. At the time, Cohen reported that more than 100 American court cases had cited Misplaced Pages, including 13 from the federal appeals courts (as distinct from American state appeals courts, within each of the states). Why did the judiciary choose to cite Misplaced Pages? Cohen quoted Stephen Gillers of the New York University Law School as saying that the most critical factor is public acceptance, including acceptance by the litigants: "A judge should not use Misplaced Pages when the public is not prepared to accept it as authority." In March of 2017, Eugene Volokh wrote an opinion piece concerning the Texas Supreme Court using Misplaced Pages to define what 'Welfare queen' meant. Perhaps by Gillers' criteria this indicates public/Wikipedia alignment on the understanding of this term. Every circuit court in the United States has used Misplaced Pages as a source for general knowledge and/or slang terms.
- The proliferation of Misplaced Pages as a source has drawn criticism from some, such as Cass Sunstein and the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. However, others such as Judge Richard Posner maintain that "Misplaced Pages is a terrific resource … because it so convenient, it often has been updated recently and is very accurate." However, Judge Posner also noted that it "wouldn’t be right to use it in a critical issue". Other scholars agree that Misplaced Pages is most appropriate for "soft facts", when courts want to provide context to help make their opinions more readable. Many agree that "Selectively using Misplaced Pages for … minor points in an opinion is an economical use of judges' and law clerks' time."
- While it remains difficult to identify lawyers who admit to using Misplaced Pages, paradoxically, it has become common for lawyers to claim that their lesser esteemed colleagues and rivals get all their information from Misplaced Pages.
We also learn that the Signpost's schedule slipping used to be quite bad: The 5 August issue was apparently meant to be the 27 July issue.
Ten years ago:
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Fifteen years ago
Creative Commons 3.0 licences were first accepted on Wikimedia Commons, a thing that seems so normal today that it's more surprising that there was a debate about it. A series of interconnected plays based on a "Misplaced Pages walk", jumping from one article to another through hyperlinks premièred in New York. However, as Misplaced Pages prepares to hide IP addresses for anonymous users, it's probably worth looking at the thing that dominated the entire period of the open publication of IP addresses, Ragesoss's article from 20 August 2007...
=WikiScanner tool creates "minor public relations disasters" for scores of organizations
Early on August 14, Wired News broke the story of WikiScanner, an online tool created by hacker Virgil Griffith that facilitates connecting the IP addresses of anonymous Misplaced Pages edits to the associated organizations. Griffith's tool combines the English Misplaced Pages database (current through August 4) with information from ip2location, which associates IP addresses with the specific organizations that control them. The initial Wired story described a few instances of dubious editing: edits from Diebold include the removal of criticism from the Diebold article, and edits from Wal-Mart include attempts to "burnish the company's image".
A companion post to Wired's Threat Level blog by editor Kevin Poulsen, "Vote On the Most Shameful Misplaced Pages Spin Jobs", invited readers to use WikiScanner to find new examples, with a reddit-powered voting system for picking out the most egregious ones. Hundreds of examples have been submitted, many of which violate Misplaced Pages's conflict of interest guideline. Several of the top-rated examples, including edits attributed to Diebold, the Church of Scientology, and the National Rifle Association, have received over 1000 votes, and new submissions continue to accumulate.
The story spreads
Other news services soon picked up the story from Wired. An article in Information Week added mention of edits by Fox News, cleaning up embarrassing information about anchor Shepard Smith. TechNewsWorld carried a tech-savvy piece that included analysis from law professor Eben Moglen; Moglen described WikiScanner as "a sudden burst of bright light and a social navigation tool for understanding the Web," and warns that "There are orders of magnitude more clever things on the way" in terms of tracking and analyzing online activity. U.S. News & World Report ran a piece that opened with "This could be very bad news for Misplaced Pages" and closed with sniping remarks by Misplaced Pages critic Andrew Keen. It also pointed out several early results from the Wired poll, including attempts by the Republican Party of Minnesota to turn the Harry Potter entry into a spoiler for the (recently released at the time) sixth book in the series, and edits from the New York Times vandalizing the George W. Bush article with the word "jerk".
Not to be outdone by the upstart Yanks, The Times of London reported that an editor from the BBC had changed Bush's middle name from "Walker" to "Wanker". On August 15 and 16, The Times ran a series of three articles (1, 2, 3) on WikiScanner, detailing edits by a host of major corporations and other organizations, among them Dow Chemical, ExxonMobil, AstraZeneca, Disney, Sony, the CIA, the Vatican, the U.S. Democratic Party, and Britain's Labour Party. One of the articles described the difficulty companies have managing their online reputations, with the potential for attempts at manipulation to backfire. The Times also ran an opinion column, "Wisdom? More like dumbness of the crowds", that praised WikiScanner as "an important development in bringing down a pernicious influence on our intellectual life."
BBC News also ran a WikiScanner story on August 15, covering vandalism from the CIA to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Democratic Party's unflattering edits about Rush Limbaugh and his listeners. The next day, the story also included a sidebar linking to an apologetic blog post by the BBC head of interactive news, explaining the BBC edits the story had neglected. The Guardian and The Telegraph also covered WikiScanner, focusing on established examples of edits by the CIA, political parties, and Fox News.
The rest of the article may be read here.
This page is a draft for the next issue of the Signpost. Below is some helpful code that will help you write and format a Signpost draft. If it's blank, you can fill out a template by copy-pasting this in and pressing 'publish changes': {{subst:Misplaced Pages:Misplaced Pages Signpost/Templates/Story-preload}}
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To put an image in your article, use the following template (link):  {{Misplaced Pages:Misplaced Pages Signpost/Templates/Filler image-v2
|size = 300px
|fullwidth = no
|alt = TKTK
|caption =
|image =
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This will create the file on the right. Keep the 300px in most cases. If writing a 'full width' article, change
Placing {{Misplaced Pages:Misplaced Pages Signpost/Templates/Inline image
|size = 300px
|align = center
|alt = TKTK
|caption =
|image =
}}
(link) will instead create an inline image like below 
To create a gallery, use the following <gallery style="float:right;" mode=packed | heights=200px> |TKTK |TKTK </gallery> Each line inside the tags should be formatted like
If you want it centered, remove t |
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To insert a framed quote like the one on the right, use this template (link): {{Misplaced Pages:Misplaced Pages Signpost/Templates/Filler quote-v2
|1 =
|author =
|source =
|fullwidth =
}}
If writing a 'full width' article, change
To insert a pull quote like
use this template (link): {{Misplaced Pages:Misplaced Pages Signpost/Templates/Quote
|1 =
|source =
}}
To insert a long inline quote like
use this template (link): {{Misplaced Pages:Misplaced Pages Signpost/Templates/block quote
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|1 = Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.
|caption = A caption
|fullwidth = no
}}
gives the frame on the right. This is useful when you want to insert non-standard images, quotes, graphs, and the like.
For example, to insert the {{Graph:Chart}} generated by {{Graph:Chart
|width=250|height=100|type=line
|x=1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8|y=10,12,6,14,2,10,7,9
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in a frame, simple put the graph code in {{Misplaced Pages:Misplaced Pages Signpost/Templates/Filler frame-v2
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to get the framed Graph:Chart on the right. If writing a 'full width' article, change |
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If you keep the 'normal' preloaded draft and work from there, you will be using the two-column style. This is perfectly fine in most cases and you don't need to do anything. However, every time you have a However, you can also fine-tune which style is used at which point in an article. To switch from two-column → full width style midway in an article, insert {{Misplaced Pages:Misplaced Pages Signpost/Templates/Signpost-block-end-v2}}
{{Misplaced Pages:Misplaced Pages Signpost/Templates/Signpost-block-start-v2|fullwidth=yes}}
where you want the switch to happen. To switch from full width → two-column style midway in an article, insert {{Misplaced Pages:Misplaced Pages Signpost/Templates/Signpost-block-end-v2}}
{{Misplaced Pages:Misplaced Pages Signpost/Templates/Signpost-block-start-v2|fullwidth=no}}
where you want the switch to happen. |
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|seriestitle = Visual Editor
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or {{Signpost series
|type = sidebar-v2
|tag = VisualEditor
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will create the sidebar on the right. If writing a 'full width' article, change Alternatively, you can use {{Signpost series
|type = inline
|tag = VisualEditor
|tag_name = visual editor
|tag_pretext = the
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at the end of an article to create
If you think a topic would make a good series, but you don't see a tag for it, or that all the articles in a series seem 'old', ask for help at the WT:NEWSROOM. Many more tags exist, but they haven't been documented yet. |
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These comments are automatically transcluded from this article's talk page. To follow comments, add the page to your watchlist. If your comment has not appeared here, you can try purging the cache.Just a month ago, the Swedish government initiated a report on reviewing current copyright. The assignment even has a specific section "The possibilities of reproducing works of art in a public place should be made clearer" with the remark "It is important that the possibilities to freely reproduce such works are not restricted more than absolutely necessary." The report should be concluded in November 2023. Ainali (talk) 21:32, 1 September 2022 (UTC)
- @Ainali the review does not seem to be favorable for Wikimedians, however. See c:Commons:Village pump/Copyright/Archive/2024/01#Swedish FoP. Although it may be more favorable in the context of no longer making Wikimedia Sweden a target of artists' groups in the country, it is less so for Wikimedians globally desiring to share Swedish monuments on Wikimedia sites. Expect a small dose of frustration for the upcoming FoP in Sweden soon, to be aligned similarly to architecture-only FoP of Finland, Norway, Denmark, Russia, Japan, Taiwan, and USA. JWilz12345 (Talk|Contrib's.) 09:42, 21 May 2024 (UTC)