>>>> "DC" == Dan Carlson
<minutiaeman(a)st-minutiae.com> writes:
DC> What options are currently available, or could be made
DC> available, given the current Wikipedia copyright and the
DC> probability of other MediaWiki-powered websites using
DC> different copyright licenses but wishing to use the same
DC> documentation as far as the site's functionality is concerned?
So, we have the same issue at Wikitravel, as you mentioned.
One possibility might be having another namespace (ANOTHER
NAMESPACE!?!) along the lines of "Documentation:" or such. Such a
namespace might be hardwired to be always under the GFDL, with a
special gnunote area.
The downside of this is that, instead of just having to warn
contributors from copying from other GFDL sites, we now have to warn
them not to copy between parts of the same site itself! Talk about
headaches...
We started documentation from scratch on Wikitravel, and although it
took me several nights to figure out the differences between "cur",
"last", "diff" and "hist", we now have a halfway-tolerable
guide to
MediaWiki, albeit pretty Wikitravel-oriented. It's under the CC by-sa
1.0, and you're welcome, of course, to exercise your rights to
redistribute and create derivative works under that license.
~ESP
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Evan Prodromou <evan(a)wikitravel.org>
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