The original author still has a copyright although it is licensed through the GNUFDL. Most material on Wikipedia is not in the public domain.
Fred
From: "David Speakman" david@speakman.com Reply-To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2004 06:05:16 -0800 To: "'English Wikipedia'" wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Subject: RE: [WikiEN-l] Trading with the Enemy
- WP authors give up all rights to the public domain. Once it is
uploaded onto the WP servers it no longer is a work belonging to any one person.