[WikiEN-l] Use of Wikipedia articles at Malaspina.com

Sun Jul 6 22:11:57 UTC 2003

Oliver Pereira wrote:

>On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, Toby Bartels wrote:
>
>>Oliver Pereira wrote:
>>
>>>This is the message I sent.
>>>
>>[Snipped!]
>>
>>It's perfectly fine that Oliver sent a letter,
>>since he discovered and his letter was just from him.
>>We should send one more letter: a form letter
>>(or something that looks just as official ^_^)
>>that's worked out on [[meta:]] and can be used again.
>>
>
>I've had a reply from Russ McNeil of Malaspina Great Books. I was going to
>forward his reply to the list, but then I had the thought that that would
>probably be an infringement of *his* copyright, which would be quite
>ironic in the circumstances. :)
>
Probably not.  If you were writing on behalf of Wikipedia, then his 
reply to you was received as an agent of Wikipedia, so sharing it with 
the list would be appropriate.

>Basically, he says that he supports the Wikipedia philosophy, and thought
>that by acknowledging the source and linking back to the Wikipedia
>articles he was dong everything he had to. He said he would check to see
>if he needed to do more. (I think this means he didn't trust my statement
>that he *did* need to do more!) So I think we should check his site again
>later to make sure that he's making the necessary changes.
>
Malaspina Great Books and Malaspina College did come up before, and Ed 
Poor appears to have written to them in October 2002 about the Ernest 
Hemingway article to mention the GFDL requirements, and the attributions 
were modified accordingly by Malaspina.  My impression is that Malaspina 
is quite willing to treat the matter with appropriate consideration.

Ec