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.