On 5/23/07, Pedro Sanchez pdsanchez@gmail.com wrote:As far as I know, all channels starting with #wikipedia- and
#wikimedia- are official as agreed with freenode, and if it were needed, http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_Group_Contacts could take control over them
Also http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_channels specifies which channels forbid logging, which ones may be logged and which are open
OK. But... I'm still confused as to how 3rd party 'rules' are enforceable on-wiki. Geni's copyright claim doesn't hold water. Even if the login to the given channel says that you hold copyright on all your words, we still routinely link to copyrighted material for discussion and analysis, and easily falls under fair use.
So we're back, unfortunately, to no official en- sancitioned policy saying that you can't post IRC content... just people not wanting things posted. Is that correct?
Regards, Joe http://www.joeszilagyi.com