On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 3:40 PM, Anthony wikimail@inbox.org wrote:
What about text works which were licensed under CC-BY-SA but were released somewhere other than Wikipedia? Can these be incorporated into Wikipedia? How will their right to attribution be respected? Is this allowance of "reference by history URL" built in to CC-BY-SA, or is it specific to Wikipedia?
The CC licenses give us a fair bit of room to move with regards to attribution, allowing for pseudonums, taking into account the medium, delegates (incl. publishing entities eg Wikipedia), etc.
I also stumbled on this[1] in commons which is interesting in the context of the discussion about certain types of contribution (photographs) inexplicably requiring stronger attribution:
"Visible tags or watermarkshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_watermarkinginside images are strongly discouraged at Wikimedia Commons. So information like "Mr. Foobar, May 2005, CC-BY-SA" shall not be written directly in the image but in EXIF fields, which is technically even superior. The reasons are:
- We don't tag our Wikipedia articles with our names in a prominent way inside the article text *in order to step behind the work and let it speak for itself*, the same applies to the images (stepping behind own work and thus reducing personal vanity is crucial for neutralityhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NPOV )."
Cheers,
Sam
1. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Manipulating_meta_data#Purpose_for...