On 21-08-2002, Jan Hidders wrote thusly :
On Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 11:09:53AM +0200, Krzysztof P. Jasiutowicz wrote:
I feel that it wouldn't be proper for Wikipedia to give credits and acknowledgements on article pages themselves. It wouldn't be Wikiwiki.
Au contraire! WikiWiki is also about community building and as the biggest kid on the block Wikipedia has a certain responsibility here. The more interlinked the open-content sites are, the better it is. And as Axel already said, it is simply a matter of common courtesy: treat others as you would like them to treat you.
Knowledge, information and content cross all borders. It is the property of mankind. I agree that some acknowledgement should be made but not neccessarily on the page. I think most of us take advantage of a lot of sources and resources. We don't want them all listed on the pages ? OK. What's the consensus here ?
After a time there can be very little left from the original source and it would be just misleading to state "it is based on...". It will be a nuisance to find out when it is Wikipedia's rather than the original author.
Why would you want to? Even if the original version only served as scaffolding for the current article, I still feel a link on the page would be warranted.
Either we should create a separate acknowledgement page or we should work out some mechanism for including a short note in the header or foot of pages.
Hmm. As long as it shows up in the article itself. We might even have a little pull-down menu on the edit pages with all the open-content sources that have given explicit permission.
Something like that.
Regards, kpjas.