[WikiEN-l] Fair use issues; we need serious help

Todd Allen toddmallen at gmail.com
Tue Aug 21 23:32:45 UTC 2007


Omegatron wrote:
> On 7/13/07, WikipediaEditor Durin <wikidurin at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> Several people have noted on en.wikipedia that consensus on this
>> policy can not override Foundation resolution.
>>     
>
>
> Hmm?  Should be the other way around.  Foundation resolutions cannot
> override community consensus.
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The Foundation pays for the servers, and owns the trademarks. If you'd
like to play by different rules than theirs, you can certainly arrange
your own hosting and grab a database dump, but you can't call it
Wikipedia and I doubt they're going to pay your hosting bill.

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