On 29/10/2007, Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com wrote:
On 10/29/07, Eugene van der Pijll eugene@vanderpijll.nl wrote:
Not really, 99% of our text is written by Wikipedians, who have no expectation to be prominently attributed; we have taken many of our best pictures from outsiders, many of whom expect more prominent credit to be given. They don't care about, and haven't ever explicitly agreed to Wikipedia's internal rules on attribution.
Cite?
Text on Wikipedia is almost universally released under GFDL specifically to be used on Wikipedia. We rarely take text from anywhere else except in specific quotes, which we would always attribute (no point quoting someone without saying who you're quoting), and are used under fair use rather than being released under a certain license, anyway. We often take images from other places where they have been released under a variety of licenses, often we no intention for them to be used on Wikipedia. There is a big difference. (Whether or not it's a legally significant difference, I don't know, but it is a big difference.)