The widget does not credit Wikipedia, but when you click on the "more" link,
the article does at the bottom. If the widget pulls from more locations than
Wikipedia, you might be complicating the software quite a bit for not much
bang for the buck. Anyone that actually wants to read the article and clicks
on the "more" link will see its from Wikipedia,
This seems no different to me than getting an
hit in a search
engine - the snippet doesn't always make it clear that it is using Wikipedia
content until you click the link.
On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 5:15 PM, Kevin Wong <wikipedianmarlith(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
I'd say it is... I believe that you need to give
credit if you reuse or
modify the text. It's like Creative Commons.
On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 6:48 AM, Andrew Famiglietti
<afamiglietti(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
Hey everybody! I've been lurking around here
for awhile, but haven't
posted
before.
I just wanted to bring something to the attention of this list. It seems
the
website
thefreedictionary.com, which has been mirroring wikipedia
content
for awhile now, has produced some sort of widget
that gives an "article
of
the day" with a link back to a wikipedia
they are mirroring.
Here's the thing, the widget doesn't credit wikipedia. It just says "Free
content provided by The Free Dictionary." Isn't the widget a derivative
work
based on the wikipedia article (it includes a preview paragraph of text)?
As
such, shouldn't it have to credit wikipedia under the terms of the GFDL?
What do people think about this? Is it a bad thing? Is it a GFDL
violation?
You can see lots of examples of the widget in action if you google "Free
content provided by The Free Dictionary." Or you can go to:
http://www.malaspina.com/home.htm to see one example.
-Andy
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