[Foundation-l] How I should consider GFDL in shared content?

Mon Aug 28 08:26:26 UTC 2006

Yes, but that won't work out if the Wikipedia version gets deleted, as
dicdefs tend to do.

On 8/28/06, Tomasz Ganicz <polimerek at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 2006/8/28, James Hare <messedrocker at gmail.com>:
> > Don't worry about it -- articles as transwikied from Wikipedia to
> Wiktionary
> > all the time.
> >
> > To successfuly transwiki an article, you copy and paste the article to
> > Wiktionary, then copy the edit history from Wikipedia to the talk page
> of
> > the new page you made at Wiktionary. Then you list the transwiki at the
> > Transwiki Log on Wikipedia, then the fate of the Wikipedia version will
> be
> > decided.
> >
> > Excuse me if I made it sound confusing -- feel free to ask for
> > clarification.
> >
> > On 8/28/06, valdelli at bluemail.ch <valdelli at bluemail.ch> wrote:
> > >
> > > I have a doubt. GFDL used by Wikipedia said that the content is free
> > > but "providing that its authors are attributed".
> > >
> > > In this case the history is strictly connected to the content. I
> > > could use content but I should have the related history.
> > >
> > > If I transfer an article from a project to another (i.e. from
> > > Wikipedia to Wikitionary) how I could respect this rule? The history
> > > is in the old article, I don't know a way to transfer also the
> > > history. The presence of a link in the new article linked to the old
> > > could be a good choice?
> > >
> > > If I transfer the content and I delete the article in the old
> > > position, what I could do in this case?
> > >
> > > Regards
> > >
> > > Ilario
>
> Or you can just add info at the bottom of the article about its source
> and link to the source artilce's history.
>
> --
> Tomek "Polimerek" Ganicz
> http://www.ceti.pl/kganicz/poli/kontakt.html
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