On Thursday 28 October 2004 11:16, Ray Saintonge wrote:
Wikisource documents are open to be edited, very
little substantive
If Wikisource is a repository of source texts, why it isn't a section of
Wikipedia? Well, I know it isn't encyclopedic... But Wikipedia is also an
almanac full of articles on years and dates, so it would be a possibility to
have a Sources section too, which could attract more contributors.
but the exploiters also have to follow the GFDL rules.
They have no
right to claim that they have the copyright on your dissertation.
I wonder how I will be able to track an exploiter in Madagascar or in Siberia
who would claim the copyright :/
The subject comes up from time to time, but the
difficulty is obtaining
permissions to change the licensing for existing articles. Many of the
contributors are no longer available, or anonymous.
Another reason why I don't allow anons in most of my wikis and I require
contact information.
Anyway, a possible solution would be to keep Wikipedia as it is and open a
Wikipedia2 with other licensing options (probable a per-page model, with GFDL
and CC options).
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