[Foundation-l] How to free something from Wikipedia in the public domain?

Fri Aug 26 11:26:35 UTC 2011

On 26 August 2011 12:15, Strainu <strainu10 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was wondering if there is any way to "officially" free Wikipedia
> content under PD/CC-0? What procedure should one follow to use that
> data on another website with an incompatible license?
>
> Assumptions: we are talking about a single version of the page with
> only one or just a few authors, and all authors have accepted to
> release the data in the public domain.
>
> Possible answers I have considered:
>  - a message from each author in the talk page of the article (pros:
> easy to implement, wiki-based; cons: language barrier)
>  - a message to OTRS (cons: afaik, OTRS messages to WMF are only
> considered "official" by the WMF itself)

I don't see why it should have anything to do with Wikipedia. You are
dealing with the copyright holders directly. The fact that the same
content happens to be used on Wikipedia under license is irrelevant.