On 25/11/12 11:02, carlb wrote:
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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&wpSearchFilter=12
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, 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outdated copy of WV as there's no way to import new WV edits to WT.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...