[Foundation-l] Schools Wikipedia & GFDL - no direct credit to authors?

Joe Szilagyi szilagyi at gmail.com
Fri Oct 24 05:27:08 UTC 2008


And directly related (I just noticed this, too):

http://schools-wikipedia.org/images/103/10307.jpg.htm

>From that same F-35 Lightning article, images that were actually deleted as
non-free images. How are we distributing this?

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/JSF_Images

How closely was this all vetted, exactly?

Joe




On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 10:12 PM, Joe Szilagyi <szilagyi at gmail.com> wrote:

> Danny Wool mentioned this on his blog today, and I had not noticed it
> myself at first--doesn't the current thing we've created, for example, at
> http://schools-wikipedia.org/wp/f/F-35_Lightning_II.htm violate GFDL? It
> actually says,
>
> "This Wikipedia Selection is sponsored by SOS Children<http://schools-wikipedia.org/wp/c/Children_Charity.htm>, and consists of a hand selection from the English Wikipedia articles with
> only minor deletions (see www.wikipedia.org for details of authors and
> sources)."
>
> But is this compliant with the GFDL?
>
> - Joe
>



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