[Foundation-l] content ownership in different projects

Fri Jun 17 12:24:56 UTC 2011

I've had a go at some basic editing to the [[WP:OWN]] page to try and
explain a bit better, rather than simply saying "IF YOU EDIT, YOU DO NOT OWN
THE PAGE!"  It still needs considerable work. Eyeballs and improvements...?

FT2

On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 11:50 AM, Amir E. Aharoni <
amir.aharoni at mail.huji.ac.il> wrote:

> The problem of content ownership hits any wiki at some point.
>
> In the English Wikipedia it is governed by a policy called "WP:OWN"
> [1]. There's a similar policy in the Hebrew Wikipedia. Is this policy
> any different in other projects?
>
> I am asking, because i agree with the English Wikipedia's policy in
> principle, but the reality is that sometimes instead of helping people
> write together, this policy drives people away from the project -
> people who could be very positive contributors, but who don't like
> their contributions edited by others without being asked. So i am
> wondering: maybe en.wp and he.wp can learn something from other
> languages here?
>
> Thank you,
>
> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Ownership_of_articles
>
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