2009/3/4 Anthony wikimail@inbox.org:
What constitutes a significant majority? What if the survey results had said that a significant majority was happy with their work being released into the public domain. Would you then find it reasonable to release *everyone's* work into the public domain?
No, because that wouldn't be legal. I think I've made it quite clear that community opinion is only relevant when it comes to legal options.
I'm not a statistician, someone else can work out how large a majority is needed from a sample size of 570 to be confident (at the 95% level, say?) that a majority of the population as a whole agrees.
If we look at just people's first choices (assuming they ranked the
options in way compatible with my ordering, first choices are sufficient) then:
12.11% would be happy with no credit 39.48% would be happy with credit to "Wikipedia" 69.66% would be happy with linking to the article 80.89% would be happy with linking to the version history
That clearly shows that a significant majority would be happy with attribution-by-URL (you can argue over where the URL should point).
Order of difficulty is not the same as order of happiness. I would be happier with "no credit" than "credit to Wikipedia".
Could you explain your reasons for that?