On 6/12/06, Steve Bennett <stevagewp(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
On 6/12/06, John Lee <johnleemk(a)gawab.com>
wrote:
idea to only allow minors to edit with parental
permission. Again,
though, we'd lose some editors, and we'd have to present this same
screen to every anon editor. Sigh...
Is it such an issue with anons?
Steve
Why wouldn't it be? They would have to release their writings under
the GFDL too, just like regular people (remember, that's a condition
of the GFDL, that all derivate works, ie every edit on wikipedia that
was based on an earlier edit, are under the GFDL too).
--Oskar
The reality of the situation is that Wikipedia relies on trust as much
as (if not more than) it relies on law. Sure, a minor could
contribute to Wikipedia and then back out of the license. Depending
how much they contributed, it could wreak a lot of havoc for a lot of
people.
Stopping minors from contributing unless they first get parental
permission would probably wreak even more havoc for even more people,
though.
Anthony