[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Travel Guide: Board statement

[Deryck Chan]

Just write "Imported from Wikitravel" and list the names of all page
authors by scrubbing the Wikitravel page. Attribution given, problem
solved! (okay, not the import practicality bit)

On 7 September 2012 21:14, Nathan <nawrich at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 4:11 PM, emijrp <emijrp at gmail.com> wrote:
> > When we use 1911 Britannica texts, we only attribute to the encyclopedia,
> > not its authors, so we can put "This text comes from Wikitravel".
> >
> > Anyway, if we are going to use Wikitravel texts, writing a script to
> scrape
> > just the usernames from histories is trivial
> > http://wikitravel.org/wiki/en/index.php?title=Kaprun&action=history
> >
>
> That's not really accurate, and not how Wikimedia projects expect to
> be credited either. "Wikipedia" or "Wikitravel" are not the authors of
> any project content (other than, for Wikitravel, that written by
> employees in the course of their employment).
>
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