[Foundation-l] Interwiki Cooperation; NSK

Thu Oct 28 10:32:20 UTC 2004

On Thursday 28 October 2004 11:16, Ray Saintonge wrote:
> Wikisource documents are open to be edited, very little substantive

If Wikisource is a repository of source texts, why it isn't a section of 
Wikipedia? Well, I know it isn't encyclopedic... But Wikipedia is also an 
almanac full of articles on years and dates, so it would be a possibility to 
have a Sources section too, which could attract more contributors.

> but the exploiters also have to follow the GFDL rules.  They have no
> right to claim that they have the copyright on your dissertation.

I wonder how I will be able to track an exploiter in Madagascar or in Siberia 
who would claim the copyright :/

> The subject comes up from time to time, but the difficulty is obtaining
> permissions to change the licensing for existing articles.  Many of the
> contributors are no longer available, or anonymous.

Another reason why I don't allow anons in most of my wikis and I require 
contact information.

Anyway, a possible solution would be to keep Wikipedia as it is and open a 
Wikipedia2 with other licensing options (probable a per-page model, with GFDL 
and CC options).

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