On 14/03/07, David Hanson behindtheateball@gmail.com wrote:
At present GFDL includes not only wikipedia articles but talk pages, user pages and WP pages. This is entirely necessary and accentuates the risk of libelous or defamatory (or just nasty) comments being duplicated on various mirrors throughout the web, beyond the reach of editors to delete them.
Since the product of wikipedia, the actual content, are articles and not talk pages, administrative pages, user pages etc can we do something to limit the GFDL to these pages specifically?
The primary problem is that we can't relicense the pre-existing text - effectively we'd have to wipe over and start again. Having two different copyright licenses on different namespaces is potentially just more of a headache than it's wirthm too.
What we *can* do is offer article-only/article-and-image-only dumps - purged of all non-mainspace pages- and make these the easier option for setting up a mirror. As it is very few mirrors include non-article pages, so I assume something like this is either happening or is happening simply through convenience...