2009/3/4 Anthony <wikimail(a)inbox.org>rg>:
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?