If it is decided not to host these materials on a wiki, whether for
copyright or any other reasons, then someone (either in the Office or
a volunteer) should be designated to retain a copy privately. That
way, he or she will be able to upload it later if the copyright status
or policy changes in the future, or to make it available offline for
research use or consultation by historians or other researchers who
could make good use of it.
Newyorkbrad/IBM
On 1/11/17, Pete Forsyth <peteforsyth(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Thank you for bringing this up, Yann. Some relevant
context is that Meta
Wiki users considered permitting such files on Meta Wiki a year and a half
ago, and decided not to. The electorate was not very big (14 votes, total),
but it was carefully considered, with compelling arguments made on both
sides.[1]
In my opinion, the best outcome would be that Meta Wiki should have an
Exemption Doctrine Policy (the board's name for a project's local policy
that would permit copyrighted files under specific circumstances)[2] I
think the Meta Wiki decision should be revisited and considered in more
depth, with more participation, and probably reversed (with some careful
work on defining the proper circumstances for an exemption).
But of course, that's not an easy task. I have no ready answer, but am
interested to see what ideas others have.
-Pete
[[User:Peteforsyth]]
[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Meta:Babel&diff=prev&o…
[2]
https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Licensing_policy
On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 3:04 PM, Yann Forget <yannfo(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
I would like to get more opinions about what to do with files such as
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Education_and_WGIG.pdf
This is a draft from a United Nations conference which mentions Wikipedia
(the first and only AFAIK), and as such, an important historical document.
It doesn't have a formal license, but there is no real copyright issue.
Where and how should we keep such files?
Regards,
Yann Forget
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