Erik Moeller wrote:
We have to determine whether Wikipedia as a whole is "the document" or whether individual articles are. In my opinion, the English Wikipedia is no more a single document than the combined English and German Wikipedias are -- the English Wikipedia is an aggregation of separately FDL-licensed articles. This is clear because each document has a separate "history" section, a separate license footer, and most documents have different contributors.
On the other hand, we've indicated intent to publish a paper version of the encyclopedia, which would very clearly be a single document. Or are we claiming it wouldnt' be? If each Wikipedia article is a separate document, any paper version we produce would have to have a list of five authors and the "history" section on *every single* article, which would take up a pretty large percentage of the total encyclopedia.
-Mark