[conspire] Recipes (are public domain)

[Rick Moen]

I honestly should have checked:

> Picture a WikiRecipes site, some day.

It's 2024.  Some guy has http://wikirecipes.com/ running on a WordPress
blog engine.

_But_ the usual cluelnessness about copyright prevails there, and other
badness.  Example recipe:   
http://wikirecipes.com/recipe-items/fragrant-chinese-beef-stew/

One cannot help notice that that is _not_ a photo of Fragrant Chinese
Beef Stew, just before noticing the photo is uncredited.  If it were a
correct photo, the lack of a credit and lack of licence statement would
matter.  

Then, under the recipe title is a bunch of SEO gibberish.

Credit for creating the recipe goes to:  "Wikirecipes".
No, I really don't think so.

(On a brief check, it appears that all of the recipes are credited to
this non-person.  This is the sort of bullshit that some computerists
like to do, I notice, pretending as if they don't exist and ought to
just be behind an anonymity curtain even for copyright and accountability
purposes.  I don't care much for this.)

To his credit, the anonymous author has brought the matter to Wikimedia
Foundation's attention:  https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiRecipes
He and commenters also mention some extant sites including WikiBooks's 
"Wikimedia Cookbook" at
https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook:Table_of_Contents


Wikimedia Foundation also has a _proposal_, listing some possible
domains for a recipes wiki: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiRecipe

The wiki concept's a fine thing.  But IMO there's quite a bit of value
in knowing a recipe is that of a real, named person who has a track 
record for good recipes, e.g., Peg Bracken.  And given that all of 
those are copyright-ineligible, why not concentrate on such?