Sheldon Rampton wrote:
When I use material from the Wikipedia in the Disinfopedia, I put in a line of attribution at the bottom of the article. For example, Disinfopedia's [[Richard A. Clarke]] article includes the following line at the bottom, with links back to Wikipedia article:
Note: A version of this article also appears in the Wikipedia.
If you want to do something similar when moving Disinfopedia material into the Wikipedia, it would be appreciated but isn't obligatory. It's not like we're in a position to sue over it.
Hmmmm, I hadn't thought of that. I've imported several Disinfopedia articles and had plans for a couple more. I think it's good for us to pool our efforts where applicable. I'll go back and add an attribution for Disinfopedia. I figure I can just put that under ==References== at the end, right?
Nat Krause (the eponymous user)
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--- Nathaniel Krause nathanielkrause@hotmail.com wrote:
Sheldon Rampton wrote:
When I use material from the Wikipedia in the Disinfopedia, I put in a line of attribution at the bottom of the article. For example, Disinfopedia's [[Richard A. Clarke]] article includes the following line at the bottom, with links back to Wikipedia article:
Note: A version of this article also appears in the Wikipedia.
If you want to do something similar when moving Disinfopedia material into the Wikipedia, it would be appreciated but isn't obligatory. It's not like we're in a position to sue over it.
Hmmmm, I hadn't thought of that. I've imported several Disinfopedia articles and had plans for a couple more. I think it's good for us to pool our efforts where applicable. I'll go back and add an attribution for Disinfopedia. I figure I can just put that under ==References== at the end, right?
Attribution is good. And the ==References== section is the natural place to put info like that.
--mav
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On 05/24/04 15:56, Daniel Mayer wrote:
--- Nathaniel Krause nathanielkrause@hotmail.com wrote:
Sheldon Rampton wrote:
When I use material from the Wikipedia in the Disinfopedia, I put in a line of attribution at the bottom of the article. For example, Disinfopedia's [[Richard A. Clarke]] article includes the following line at the bottom, with links back to Wikipedia article:
Note: A version of this article also appears in the Wikipedia.
If you want to do something similar when moving Disinfopedia material into the Wikipedia, it would be appreciated but isn't obligatory. It's not like we're in a position to sue over it.
Hmmmm, I hadn't thought of that. I've imported several Disinfopedia articles and had plans for a couple more. I think it's good for us to pool our efforts where applicable. I'll go back and add an attribution for Disinfopedia. I figure I can just put that under ==References== at the end, right?
Attribution is good. And the ==References== section is the natural place to put info like that.
Yes. I wasn't asking out of fear of lawsuit, but out of politeness and a wish to properly attribute the work of the Disinfopedia contributors :-)
I've added a suggestion to [[Wikipedia:GNU Free Documentation License resources]]:
When using material from Disinfopedia, you may wish to use the following as an attribution line:
''This article includes [http://address-of-Disinfopedia-article material] from [[Disinfopedia]].''
Example is on [[Alexis de Tocqueville Institute]] (or [[AdTI]] for the lazy). Quite a bit of the material is from Disinfopedia. (With suitable NPOV massaging - Disinfopedia feeling freer to label scoundrels as scoundrels ;-)
Is there a way to make a {{msg:disinfopedia}} that would automatically link to the article of the same name on Disinfopedia? That would be a lot easier hence more widely used.
- d.
--- David Gerard fun@thingy.apana.org.au wrote:
... Is there a way to make a {{msg:disinfopedia}} that would automatically link to the article of the same name on Disinfopedia? That would be a lot easier hence more widely used.
I hear that the new template namespace for MediaWiki 1.3 can take variables. It would be neat if a {{PAGENAME}} variable (with spaces replaced by underscores) were created and used as such a variable. But that will only work if the Wikipedia article and the Disinfopedia article both have the same name.
-- mav
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On 05/24/04 18:21, Daniel Mayer wrote:
--- David Gerard fun@thingy.apana.org.au wrote:
Is there a way to make a {{msg:disinfopedia}} that would automatically link to the article of the same name on Disinfopedia? That would be a lot easier hence more widely used.
I hear that the new template namespace for MediaWiki 1.3 can take variables. It would be neat if a {{PAGENAME}} variable (with spaces replaced by underscores) were created and used as such a variable. But that will only work if the Wikipedia article and the Disinfopedia article both have the same name.
How about an optional {{msg:disinfopedia:Article_name}}. While we're wishing ;-)
The articles are *mostly* - though not always - under the same name.
- d.