[Commons-l] English Wikipedia needs some help.

Tue Dec 26 00:35:02 UTC 2006

On 12/25/06, the wub <thewub.wiki at googlemail.com> wrote:
> I added my "vote"
>
> What we could really use is some kind of prominently linked page with an
> introduction to the whole idea of free content, and _why_ Wikimedia projects
> are free content. Bear in mind that for a vast number of users, Wikipedia
> will be the first free content project they have met. The en.wp article
> [[free content]] is often used for this purpose, but it isn't exactly ideal
> and a page out the main namespace would certainly be better.
> [[Wikipedia:Copyrights]] gives a reasonable explanation of the rules, but
> does little to explain why they exist, and why they are a part of our
> mission.
>
> the wub

It goes further than that. Until very recently it was:
Welcome to wikipedia the one "web 2.0" project that gives a damn about
copyright.

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geni