[Wikipedia-l] Marketing: a question

Thu Jul 13 23:57:13 UTC 2006

Hi!

>What about translations from other wikipedias? That text is highly likely
to
>the GFDL-only, and I suppose it should also be redistributed as GFDL (i.e.
>printing the whole text of the licence)

Well, if this *is* a problem, then it makes no sense to switch licences at
all. It's much more practical to revert to the old solution of having a
short text published that will satisfy the cops enough to get rid of the
whole matter. We need a marketing tool, not a lawyers' mind game.

Is this really *that* relevant? And if it is, then how many wikies are
actually "stealing" content from each other?

I can read pretty much the same stuff from all interwiki links, and never
ever noticed anyone having a foreign link in their histories... neither did
I see templates stating that text "Goofy loves Mickey" was originally
translated from xxx.wiki, while "Walt Dysney was an american of ukrainian
origin" came from ttt.wiki. So what about quoting sources and giving a
pointer to the original(s)?

It's impossible to do it, unless you want to have articles look like
trashbins. I use sources in... 20-25 languages, sometimes I get to read 5
editions to check a single voice, should I quote them all? Now this *really*
would turn any text into an unreadable mess.

Bèrto