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@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ You may want to read the EditingTips to get started.
 Editing requires authentication.  If you don't have a real account, you can
 login as **Anonymous****Coward** with empty password.
 
-=== About the software ===
+=== About the software powering this website ===
 
 This web site is powered by my own minimalistic wiki engine called [[GeekiGeeki]].
 
@@ -21,13 +21,15 @@ much as possible. Call me a fundamentalist, but I find it very disturbing to giv
 online identity to services whose conditions are established and changed unilaterally.
 
 The [[http://opendefinition.org/ | definition of open knowledge]] is still a subject of
-discussion. At this time, I generally boycot any online web services that make it
+discussion. At this time, I tend to boycot those online web services that make it
 intentionally hard bulk access to data created collaboratively by their users.
-Examples of badly behaving sites are [[http://www.imdb.com | IMDB]] and
-[[http://flickr.com | Flickr]].
+Examples of such badly behaving sites are [[http://www.imdb.com | IMDB]] and
+[[http://flickr.com | Flickr]]: both have been created by us, but try downloading
+substantial portions of their data, if you can.
 
 My current personal policy is to use these services in read-only mode, without
-helping them collect even more information.
+helping them collect even more information. The Wikipedia, on the other hand,
+provides an interface to dump the entire database, including the history of edits.
 
 Call me a fundamentalist for going through these hoops, but I believe I'm acting in
 my best personal interest. I //do// care about my meta-self, and you?