On 16/02/2008, Conrad Irwin conrad.irwin@googlemail.com wrote:
Dear all,
From tidying up around the edges on en.wiktionary I noticed that our content disclaimer is an old clone of en.wikipedia's with some links to the specific disclaimers there. Bringing this up on http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Metapub#Disclaimers I was advised to invite responses by emailing this list.
Would it make sense to have some site-neutral central disclaimers that can be used by any wiki that does not yet have its own? How much legal stuff needs to be in the disclaimers, is it the kind of thing that, like the Privacy policy, needs to be reasonably correct - or is it safe to have many thrown together ones?
I apologise if this email is out of turn, please point me in the right direction.
Good question (and this is the right place to ask it). Disclaimers probably should be done at the foundation level (ie. by Mike Godwin). I can't think of any reason why different projects would need different disclaimers, they're pretty generic things - one central disclaimer written by Mike would probably be best.