I know it is bad to restrict editing of a page unless a person has an account, but on the same hand one has to keep track of how many times a person enters a copyrighted material like the article up there.
Regards,
Well.. So far it is not a real problem.. I know that I had deleted may articles "Created" by copying from copyrighted sites/material. But I think that it is not a serious problem yet.. Maybe the serious problem is that people fail to understand the meaning of copyrights, and that they have to respect it.. and fail to understand that validity of content in terms of information, and copyrights is as important as having content :)
Isam Bayazidi
Ahmad Al-rasheedan wrote:
I know it is bad to restrict editing of a page unless a person has an account, but on the same hand one has to keep track of how many times a person enters a copyrighted material like the article up there.
Regards,
Perhaps the Wikipedia:Copyrights page needs to be made stronger (http://tinyurl.com/yqplp). It might be useful to add a more noticeable link to this from the Main Page as well.
Secondly, we don't seem to have a translation of the GFDL yet, so people might be confused about what they can add. (http://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_FDL). It would be great if people could be encuraged to work on this. http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/copyleft.html#translationsGFDL has guidelines on translating. So far they link to the Wikipedia versions for Romanian and Welsh. It would be great to have them linking to our Arabic version as well. :)
Angela
p.s. sorry for changing the name of the thread but Yahoo had scrambled it into meaningless characters.
--- Isam Bayazidi isam@bayazidi.net wrote: > Well..
So far it is not a real problem.. I know that I had deleted may articles "Created" by copying from copyrighted sites/material. But I think that it is not a serious problem yet.. Maybe the serious problem is that people fail to understand the meaning of copyrights, and that they have to respect it.. and fail to understand that validity of content in terms of information, and copyrights is as important as having content :)
Isam Bayazidi
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On Saturday 28 February 2004 21:18, Angela wrote:
Secondly, we don't seem to have a translation of the GFDL yet, so people might be confused about what they can add. (http://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_FDL). It would be great if people could be encuraged to work on this. http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/copyleft.html#translationsGFDL has guidelines on translating. So far they link to the Wikipedia versions for Romanian and Welsh. It would be great to have them linking to our Arabic version as well. :)
I remember Isam asked me to translate something before but never received the document, would that be it? translating the FDL stuff?
Regards,
Well, As for translating GNU FDL, I think that it is not needed.. as after all the Arabic Wikipedia is under the Original GNU FDL not any translated version of it. A translation can be made to brief it in Arabic, but not a term-to-term translation, and legal text is not easy to be made.
Now as for the Copyrights page, I know it need to grow.. but the thing is no one read the existing short one :) if they did we wouldn't see copyright violation ! We have to admit that very few people read such Notices or disclaimers, just ask your self how many times you press "Next" when you install a program without reading what is in the dialog :)
Ahmad Al-rasheedan wrote:
On Saturday 28 February 2004 21:18, Angela wrote:
Secondly, we don't seem to have a translation of the GFDL yet, so people might be confused about what they can add. (http://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_FDL). It would be great if people could be encuraged to work on this. http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/copyleft.html#translationsGFDL has guidelines on translating. So far they link to the Wikipedia versions for Romanian and Welsh. It would be great to have them linking to our Arabic version as well. :)
I remember Isam asked me to translate something before but never received the document, would that be it? translating the FDL stuff?
Regards,