There is also a question about whether this is a job for volunteers or say the legal counsel of WMF (who in the past has been out of sync with the community). The community may want lots of things which the license does not entitle them to ask for.
In respect of wikipediaondvd and schools-wikipedia though can I suggest this comes off the mailing lists onto the Project pages where the relevant people can give it attention.
Also someone somewhere particularly needs to look at offline attributions which is a multilingual problem.
Andrew
On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 7:19 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
2008/10/26 geni geniice@gmail.com:
2008/10/26 Bryan Derksen bryan.derksen@shaw.ca:
Bryan Derksen wrote:
Thanks. I do support what they're doing, and don't want to be a jerk about hounding a charity, but with Wikipedia's logo prominently displayed on this one I want to make sure nobody thinks we're putting a stamp of approval on this level of GFDL compliance.
While I'm on the subject, I've just discovered that http://www.wikipediaondvd.com/site.php is also noncompliant in the same general way (every article appears to link back to [[India]] as its source, regardless of content - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Mirrors_and_forks/Vwxyz#Wikipedia_On_...). Since this site also uses the Wikipedia logo it should also be looked at by the Foundation about this.
Sigh. Volunteers to set up a series of GFDL compliance awards? Like the HTML compliance things.
We would need to work out what the GFDL actually requires for that, though...
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