Re: [Mediawiki-l] Copyright management

Hi, For the needs of my projects http://www.nerdypc.org and http://www.adapedia.org I need the following feature in the software: The users when they click Edit see a form with a textarea where they can change the article but also some radio boxes or checkboxes below the textarea labelled with the copyright licenses that the site supports. If the edited page is a new article, then the user can choose any license he/she loves. If the edited page is an existing article, the software needs to determine under which license it is available and force the user to submit his/her changes under the same license. So, the first author of each wikipage will decide what license the wikipage will have. Currently the supported licenses are GFDL and CC-by-sa2, but I may soon support more like the BSDDOC and more CC. The software needs to allow easy addition of new licenses. Of course, the software will have an option (perhaps in LocalSettings.php) to disable this "copyright management" module and apply a single copyright license on the whole site, like the GFDLed Wikipedia or the GFDLed JnanaBase at http://jnana.wikinerds.org Also, the user preferences could have some checkboxes where the users can choose what licenses they love and the software will only let them to edit articles marked with that licenses. Is the MediaWiki team interested to work together in order to incorporate this feature in MediaWiki 1.4 ? If you don't need it in MW, is there any developer who would like to practice his/her PHP skills by implementing this feature in MediaWiki 1.3.7 ? -- NSK Admin of http://portal.wikinerds.org Project Manager of http://www.nerdypc.org Project Manager of http://www.adapedia.org _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l