Plagiarism
Yes, stealing from Wikipedia is still plagiarism. Apparently Stacy Conradt of mental_floss finds it too difficult to include a link to her source material. In this post she posted a sampling of events from this Wikipedia page, and she didn’t even bother to paraphrase them all.
The mental_floss blog is worthless entertainment, but that doesn’t excuse this sort of thing.
I wonder if she’ll cop to it or change the post or ignore this (I posted a comment pointing out the issue).
“I think Knuth and Stallman are probably just the bleeding edge of a trend we’re going to see more of as highly plugged-in generations of people age.”
http://io9.com/5022824/the-ones-who-disappear