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180:. It was deleted 15 hours after its creation as something inappropriate for Knowledge, although some participants considered the deletion discussion itself to be the work of art. The artists later created the wikipediaart.org website and presented the project in terms that, according to the Wikimedia Foundation, could be interpreted as suggesting a close connection between the project and Knowledge. Based on concerns brought to the Foundation's attention by Wikipedians, legal counsel for Wikimedia Foundation Douglas Isenberg emailed the artists, who addressed the Foundation's concerns by adding a disclaimer to the website noting its non-association with Knowledge. 82: 279: 109: 99: 33: 119: 79: 129: 89: 200:
it as "about the gentlest "demand letter" one can possibly write" and considers the mattered settled with the disclaimer. He noted that "if someone decided to use the EFF website as a staging ground for a performance art piece, I'd entirely support their efforts to prevent anyone's confusing the
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decried what she characterized as a threat to the artists' free speech. The first email sent to the artists stated that use of the "Knowledge" name was infringing on trademark rights and requested that the domain name wikipediaart.org be turned over to the Foundation, although
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article, intended to "point to the 'invisible authors and authorities' of Knowledge, and by extension the Internet, as well as the site's extant criticisms: bias, consensus over credentials, reliability and accuracy, vandalism, etc." the article was soon sent to
248:) Knowledge to the UK government. He said, "Our government spends nearly £400 million a year on advertising to reach sixty million people while Knowledge, one of the largest websites in the world, spends about one per cent of that to reach 280 million people". 102: 296: 122: 218:
concludes that "ased on its search engine ranking and page view statistics, the English Knowledge is a prominent source of online health information compared to the other online health information providers studied."
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In the last sentence of the first paragraph, did the WMF counsel really add the disclaimer to the non-WMF website, or did he merely suggest that it be added?
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found that "early 50% of US physicians going online for professional purposes are visiting Knowledge for health and medical information".
220: 59: 364: 21: 456: 348: 371: 451: 446: 234:) that "things that are offered for 'free' are quite fragile in terms of sustainability", while talking about Knowledge. 441: 382: 227: 188: 436: 278: 41: 32: 17: 386: 197: 184: 211: 462: 8: 401: 355: 204: 475: 397: 237: 172: 146: 193: 157: 424: 171:. On February 15, artists Scott Kildall and Nathaniel Stern created the 245: 231: 164: 428: 420: 142: 153:
Knowledge Art dispute pits artists against Wikimedia Foundation
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Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association
369:If your comment has not appeared here, you can try 473: 196:, lead counsel for the Wikimedia Foundation, 140: 60:Knowledge Art dispute, and brief headlines 185:Knowledge Threatens Artists for Fair Use 372: 14: 474: 396:The latter. I clarified it, thanks.-- 482:Knowledge Signpost archives 2009-04 27: 277: 31: 28: 493: 354:These comments are automatically 127: 117: 107: 97: 87: 77: 201:artists' work with their own." 365:add the page to your watchlist 189:Electronic Frontier Foundation 13: 1: 340: 18:Knowledge:Knowledge Signpost 7: 10: 498: 406:01:21, 28 April 2009 (UTC) 391:17:30, 27 April 2009 (UTC) 183:In a commentary titled " 362:. To follow comments, 282: 187:", an attorney at the 36: 281: 178:Articles for Deletion 35: 379:==Serious problem== 358:from this article's 226:Informationweek.com 221:Another recent study 324:Features and admins 349:Discuss this story 334:Arbitration report 319:WikiProject report 283: 37: 373:purging the cache 329:Technology report 242:recently compared 214:published in the 489: 465: 376: 374: 368: 347: 301: 293: 286: 269: 261: 169:wikipediaart.org 149: 131: 130: 121: 120: 111: 110: 101: 100: 91: 90: 81: 80: 48: 497: 496: 492: 491: 490: 488: 487: 486: 472: 471: 470: 469: 468: 467: 466: 461: 459: 454: 449: 444: 439: 432: 412: 411: 378: 370: 363: 352: 351: 345:+ Add a comment 343: 339: 338: 337: 294: 289: 287: 284: 273: 272: 270:"In the news" → 267: 264: 259: 207: 155: 150: 139: 138: 137: 128: 118: 108: 98: 88: 78: 72: 69: 58: 51: 49: 45: 44: 42:← Current issue 38: 26: 25: 24: 12: 11: 5: 495: 485: 484: 460: 455: 450: 445: 440: 435: 434: 433: 414: 413: 410: 409: 408: 353: 350: 342: 341: 336: 331: 326: 321: 316: 311: 309:News and notes 306: 300: 288: 276: 275: 274: 265: 256: 255: 254: 252: 250: 249: 235: 224: 206: 203: 154: 151: 136: 135: 125: 115: 105: 95: 85: 74: 73: 70: 64: 63: 62: 61: 56: 55: 53: 50: 47: 40: 39: 30: 29: 15: 9: 6: 4: 3: 2: 494: 483: 480: 479: 477: 464: 458: 453: 448: 443: 438: 430: 426: 422: 418: 415:Keep up with 407: 403: 399: 395: 394: 393: 392: 388: 384: 375: 366: 361: 357: 346: 335: 332: 330: 327: 325: 322: 320: 317: 315: 312: 310: 307: 305: 302: 298: 292: 291:27 April 2009 285:In this issue 280: 271: 263: 262:"In the news" 253: 247: 243: 239: 238:David Cameron 236: 233: 229: 225: 222: 217: 213: 209: 208: 202: 199: 195: 190: 186: 181: 179: 174: 173:Knowledge Art 170: 166: 162: 159: 148: 144: 134: 126: 124: 116: 114: 106: 104: 96: 94: 86: 84: 76: 75: 67: 54: 43: 34: 23: 19: 417:The Signpost 416: 380: 313: 304:Lazy Virtues 297:all comments 251: 182: 158:Ars Technica 156: 52: 463:Suggestions 383:208.54.4.69 356:transcluded 314:In the news 194:Mike Godwin 57:In the news 46:In the news 71:Share this 66:Contribute 22:2009-04-27 457:Subscribe 360:talk page 246:permalink 232:permalink 212:new study 198:described 165:permalink 147:Sage Ross 476:Category 452:Newsroom 447:Archives 429:Mastodon 425:Facebook 398:ragesoss 260:Previous 113:LinkedIn 93:Facebook 20:‎ | 421:Twitter 205:Briefly 161:reports 103:Twitter 123:Reddit 83:E-mail 442:About 228:notes 16:< 437:Home 402:talk 387:talk 268:Next 145:and 133:Digg 427:or 419:on 141:By 68:— 478:: 423:, 404:) 389:) 258:← 210:A 143:X! 431:. 400:( 385:( 377:. 367:. 299:) 295:( 244:( 230:( 163:(

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