Yes, CC-BY is great.

On Thu Jan 08 2015 at 7:01:12 AM Markus Krötzsch <markus@semantic-mediawiki.org> wrote:
On 08.01.2015 15:10, james@j1w.xyz wrote:
> Prior to viewing Markus Krötzsch's Wikidata page, I was unaware of the
> "Wikidata: A Free Collaborative Knowledgebase" article [1] written by
> Denny Vrandečić and Markus Krötzsch.  This is a very helpful article
> that in my opinion should be featured on the Wikidata main page.

Glad you liked it. Checking the Wikidata item, I notice that it is
actually Open Access and not "all rights reserved". It is available for
free ("forever") from the ACM [1], but it seems they do not define any
license. However, as we have retained all the rights, we can do what we
like there.

Denny, shall we use CC-BY?

Markus

[1] http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2014/10/178785-wikidata/fulltext


>
> [1] http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2014/10/178785-wikidata/fulltext
>
> Regards,
> James Weaver
>
> On Wed, Jan 7, 2015, at 05:14 PM, Markus Krötzsch wrote:
>> Irrespective of the general policy discussion, I have now been bold and
>> changed my item and user page to record that relationship as by my
>> earlier suggestion (as copied below):
>>
>> https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18618630
>>
>> I was wondering if, given that we have single signon, "website account
>> on" should point to "Wikidata" or to "Wikimedia" or something else. But
>> besides this minor point this seems to be a nice way to have COI
>> declarations in the data (would also be interesting to know which living
>> people have official Wikimedia accounts).
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Markus
>>
>> On 07.01.2015 15:25, Markus Krötzsch wrote:
>> ...
>>>
>>> In addition, there should be a template that one can use on one's user
>>> page to disclose that one is the person described in a certain item.
>>> Conversely, we should also use our "website account on" property (P553)
>>> to connect living people to their Wikidata user account, so the COI is
>>> recorded in the data. One could further disclose other COIs on one's
>>> user page in some standard format, but maybe with Wikidata we could
>>> actually derive such COIs automatically (your family members, the
>>> companies you founded, the university you graduated from, etc. can all
>>> be specified in data).
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Markus
>>>
>>>
>>
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