Let me quote User:Dgrant "if the link text says GFDL, few people will
bother going to it, at least I personally wouldn't, I've already read
the GFDL before." He has a point, the notice is misleading in it's
current form, and I think people are discouraged from reading the
Copyright page b/c the link is titled "GFDL." So, we change the notice
so that the link to Wikipedia:Copyrights does not masquerade itself as
the GFDL. Since we have to provide a link to the GFDL, we make it a
separate link in the notice. You might not like the version that Toby
Bartels, Dgrant, and I have come up with, but I still think it is not
right in it's current state. I would be more than happy to change the
notice in the code myself (actually, I would love to) but I wouldn't
even know where to start looking.
--
Michael Becker
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Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Update to gfdl copyright notice needed
Michael Becker wrote:
It has been discussed (here:
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Sites_that_use_Wikipedia_fo
r_content)
that the gfdl notice on the bottom of every page needs
updating. >
The following notice is the result of the discussion
"All text is available under the terms of the
[[Wikipedia:Text of
the GNU Free Documentation License|GNU Free Documentation
License]].
See [[Wikipedia:Copyrights]] for suggested
practices."
I would like to request that as long as no one has any more
suggestion > to
make on the talk page, this new notice be instituted
ASAP.
Hmm, it wouldn't hurt but I don't see it as substantially different.
Also, the "Printable version" pages need to
have the same notice >
(currently they don't).
The printable pages currently have the identical notice as the regular
page view:
"All text is available under the terms of the
GNU Free Documentation License."
where "GNU Free Documentation License" is a link to
[[Wikipedia:Copyrights]] which is more detailed. (Yes, it's a redirect
through [[GNU FDL]] at present.)
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)
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