For what it's worth, this is my take on it as well, and I agree with all points below.
On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 5:46 PM, Greg Sabino Mullane <greg@turnstep.com> wrote:
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> It seems this wiki is fetching all Planet PostgreSQL content and adding > anything to their own wiki - without even a link back to planet. > Any planet link is rewritten to match the wiki structure.
Not sure what you mean by this? EVery article I looked at does link back to the originating blog. All the links in my article, for example, still work exactly as I wrote them:
> In addition they change any license to: "All original text is available > as Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike".
That means any text *not copied from somewhere else* is under CCA-S. In other words, anything created on their site. Which seems perfectly valid to me.
> This behavior gives (of course) top positions in any search engine > result - but i'm not sure that all planet feeds find this amusing. > Just spoke with Devrim about that and his opinion is to let the > community decide.
What makes you think that they get "top position" in a search engine result? Searching for "DBD::Pg tracing" gives my original article as the top result, with swik.net not even showing up at all.
They are simply parsing the RSS feed, and they *do* link back to planetpostgres, including the "Continue reading" bit, so I'm not seeing this as a really big deal. If they weren't linking back to PP at all, this might matter, but because they do, this is actually a good thing and probably helps PP's Google rating.