On 25/11/12 11:02, carlb wrote:
* Internet Brands is continuing to censor and
blacklist all mention of
Wikivoyage from user pages on WT;
wikitravel.org/en/Special:AbuseLog?title=Special%3AAbuseLog&wpSearchFil…
might make the picture a little clearer.
This has an interesting unintended consequence. The content legally
belongs to the authors, and is made available under a free licence
(Creative Commons By - Share Alike) - a "copyleft" which grants the
right to reuse the content if attribution is given to the original
author. That means that content can be (and was) copied from Wikitravel
to Wikivoyage, perfectly lawfully, by indicating where the content
originated and complying with the free licence. It's not so simple to go
the other way, though... something whose only known authorship is
[[wikivoyage:user:A. Nick Name]] is in theory re-usable at Wikitravel,
but only if attribution is properly given to its author. There's no
guarantee that A. Nick Name on Wikivoyage is the same person as A. Nick
Name on some site outside Wikimedia. That means that the only way to
meet the attribution requirement is to acknowlege "uses free content
from A. Nick Name at Wikivoyage under Creative Commons BY-SA license"
and that trips the abuse filter:
00:00, 00 January 0000: Username (talk | contribs) triggered filter 12
<http://wikitravel.org/en/Special:AbuseFilter/12>, performing the action
"edit" on PageName. Actions taken: Disallow; Filter description: Salem's
Lot (details | examine).
That means that not only can A. Nick Name's brilliant contribution to
Wikivoyage not be copied back to WT, any subsequent edits which build
upon what Nick wrote (as derivative works) also can't be copied to WT if
they contain any of Nick's writing.
That pretty much guarantees that whatever's on WT is merely an outdated
copy of WV as there's no way to import new WV edits to WT. Nice...