I have never understood why any substantial contributor to Wikipedia here would feel that attributing the specific text the contributed to an article to them individually if an article is reprinted is to their benefit--given that the text will have been almost entirely replaced, modified, and fragmented? I can understand why the greater of an image might what specific attribution preserved, but for almost all articles, the individual contribution is almost entirely submerged.
To make this more specific, I ask anyone who would pull his text contributions out of Wikipedia is given the choice between doing so and accepting a license without such attribution to indicate their contributions and explain why in context it matters to them. No generalities, please, but specific articles whose history we can examine.
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 9:28 AM, Anthony wikimail@inbox.org wrote:
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 9:24 AM, Anthony wikimail@inbox.org wrote:
I'd much rather see a switch to the GSFDL, with some sort of clause added to that license allowing combining of history lines into a single line listing all significant authors, in the case of an MMORPG (or whatever it is the FSF has chosen for the codeword for Wikipedia).
Or perhaps even better, as more generally, in the case of any back-to-back history lines with the same title and publisher (in whatever necessary lawyer-speak). _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l