[Wikipedia-l] Force user to choose a licence when uploading data

Sun Mar 21 17:03:29 UTC 2004

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>> What about {{msg:CopyrightedFreeUseProvided}}, which takes an
>> "argument" (text following the tag)?  Perhaps a text field after
>> the license choice?

>My only concern about this approach is that most people don't
>understand anything about copyright.  Asking them to choose a
>license under those circumstances is like rolling dice.  It would
>be nice if the license choices were accompanied by a brief outline
>of the implications of each choice.

This could also be done by making them Wikilinks, either to something
like [[Public Domain]], or to something like [[Wikipedia:Copyright
Police#Public Domain]].

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