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

Mon Aug 28 16:28:12 UTC 2006

effe iets anders wrote:

>Ask the community to request the import-function. That function allows
>you to import an article from another wiki with keeping the history
>intact.
>
>Lodewijk
>  
>
I've been using the page import feature with Wikiversity, and it makes 
the transwiki process work out so successfully that I really wonder why 
this isn't allowed with other projects?  Is this mainly a CPU bandwidth 
issue, or is this still just an experimental feature?

There are a few bugs with the page import, but those few bugs can be 
usually compensated for by compitent administrators.  And this also 
preserves the page edit history including previous versions of the page, 
which are quite often left out of a traditional manual transwiki.

I will have to agree with the parent poster that this is one aspect of 
the GFDL that is often strongly ignored, and that citation of 
authors/contributors needs to significantly improve over what is 
currently being done on most Wikimedia projects.

I'll refrain from rehashing further points on this issue I've made in 
the past, but it is a problem.

-- 
Robert Scott Horning