I am forwarding this message to wikien-l, because I believe the decision could have a semi-major impact on the English Wikipedia (at least, if Citizendium ever becomes reasonably popular).
Anyway, sorry if I've misjudged the potential interest of people on this list.
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Larry Sanger sanger-lists@citizendium.org Date: Sep 14, 2007 3:37 PM Subject: [Citizendium-l] Call for essays: Citizendium license To: Main Citizendium citizendium-l@lists.purdue.edu, CZ Editors Citizendium-editors@lists.purdue.edu
All,
I am hereby calling for formal (or semi-formal), well-reasoned position statements, from *anyone*--including people outside the Citizendium community--about what licensing scheme the *Citizendium* (http://www.citizendium.org/) should use.
The issues are covered in an incomplete and semi-systematic way on three separate pages here (under "License"): http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/CZ:Summaries_of_policy_arguments
There are many interesting issues involved, but it boils down to one: under what license should we release articles that we have created ourselves? (Articles that originated in part from Wikipedia are now available under the GFDL.)
I am giving us a deadline: we will have made the final decision on the license by November 15, two months from now. So the essays should be received by, let's say, October 20--if you want the decisionmakers to be able to absorb them.
Citizens may post links to their essays here:
http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/CZ:License_Essays
If you like, you can make your essay a subpage of that page. Please *don't* make your essay a subpage of your user page (that's actually contrary to user page rules).
Non-Citizens can host the essay yourself, or send it to us and we will host it, in HTML, PDF, or MediaWiki form. Send links to me (or another Citizen) to post.
Because this is an issue that deeply affects the future and vitality of the project as a whole, I will be taking a strong personal interest in it. I myself will be writing an essay summing up my own views, but I would like to have the benefit of your essays, first!
Please forward this important call for essays to potentially interested parties. I personally will be putting it only on Citizendium-L, Citizendium-Editors, and the blog.
--Larry
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I am interested ! Thank you for keeping us informed :-)
ant
Anthony wrote:
I am forwarding this message to wikien-l, because I believe the decision could have a semi-major impact on the English Wikipedia (at least, if Citizendium ever becomes reasonably popular).
Anyway, sorry if I've misjudged the potential interest of people on this list.
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Larry Sanger sanger-lists@citizendium.org Date: Sep 14, 2007 3:37 PM Subject: [Citizendium-l] Call for essays: Citizendium license To: Main Citizendium citizendium-l@lists.purdue.edu, CZ Editors Citizendium-editors@lists.purdue.edu
All,
I am hereby calling for formal (or semi-formal), well-reasoned position statements, from *anyone*--including people outside the Citizendium community--about what licensing scheme the *Citizendium* (http://www.citizendium.org/) should use.
The issues are covered in an incomplete and semi-systematic way on three separate pages here (under "License"): http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/CZ:Summaries_of_policy_arguments
There are many interesting issues involved, but it boils down to one: under what license should we release articles that we have created ourselves? (Articles that originated in part from Wikipedia are now available under the GFDL.)
I am giving us a deadline: we will have made the final decision on the license by November 15, two months from now. So the essays should be received by, let's say, October 20--if you want the decisionmakers to be able to absorb them.
Citizens may post links to their essays here:
http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/CZ:License_Essays
If you like, you can make your essay a subpage of that page. Please *don't* make your essay a subpage of your user page (that's actually contrary to user page rules).
Non-Citizens can host the essay yourself, or send it to us and we will host it, in HTML, PDF, or MediaWiki form. Send links to me (or another Citizen) to post.
Because this is an issue that deeply affects the future and vitality of the project as a whole, I will be taking a strong personal interest in it. I myself will be writing an essay summing up my own views, but I would like to have the benefit of your essays, first!
Please forward this important call for essays to potentially interested parties. I personally will be putting it only on Citizendium-L, Citizendium-Editors, and the blog.
--Larry
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