Hoi,
I already asked for other licenses, that received a willing enough answer.
Question yourself though what it means from a "green" point of view; how
much paper, ink and energy will be wasted as a result.
The issue I have is with adding license information to pictures. When this
is to be done, it means that with the pictures license information has to be
added with the picuteres. This will disturb the looks of pages. This is not
acceptable; I will inform people that this tool is not acceptable as a
result as I indicated in my post.
As to my emotions, I am not enraged, I am bemused that people do not
consider practical implications. I am totally happy when people act
stupidly, it is their right, sometimes I am even willing to point this out.
So consider this a public service:) To point out one other common fallacy;
MediaWiki is not only used for Wikipedia not even within the Wikimedia
Foundation.
Thanks,
GerardM
On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 11:49 PM, Magnus Manske <magnusmanske(a)googlemail.com>
wrote:
On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 4:54 PM, Gerard Meijssen
<gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hoi,
When your way of printing information, information that looks utterly
different because of this wish / urge to include all kinds of other
information that cannot be seen on the screen, you create a white
elephant.
Be assured that I will not hesitate to advise anyone not to use this tool
when the page as seen on screen is not faithfully reproduced when
printed.
Be assured that this is not what you want. When
the urge to be
"politically
correct" creates output in this way, you
will effectively kill off open
content and make it impossible to sell people the idea of Open Content.
Please THINK.
Thanks,
GerardM
Now, now. No need to get enraged here.
I'm not sure what your point here is, Gerard. Someone wrote an online
tool that can create PDFs from Wikipedia articles. It attaches the
GFDL, as this is the current Wikipedia license requirement.
What exactly is wrong with that? How does that "kill off open content"?
If you would like to see it support other licenses and other sites,
you're free to ask for that. You know, nicely. Neither threatening nor
patronizing. I'm sure you will they'll be happy to extend the scope of
the tool once it has been shown to work nicely with Wikipedia in
practice.
Have some WikiLove :-)
Magnus
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