[Wikipedia-l] Re: Wikipedia privacy

Jimmy Wales jwales at bomis.com
Wed Apr 9 12:05:13 UTC 2003


Oliver Pereira wrote:
> I think that without playing word games, the licence is asking us to
> list the individual responsible.

But we do.  The GNU FDL contains no prohibition on pseudonyms, and if
someone chooses to edit under the pseudonym 129.79.1.xxx, then we let
them do so.

> > I do agree, though, that at some point we will want to have a "sifter"
> > project or similar in order to create a Wikipedia release version 1.0.
> 
> That sounds an interesting idea. But who would be responsible for
> determining what gets into the released version? Would it be some sort
> of... cabal? ;)

That's a good question.

--Jimbo



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