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From: wikipedia-l-bounces(a)Wikimedia.org [mailto:wikipedia-l-
bounces(a)Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Andre Engels
Sent: Sunday, April 02, 2006 2:12 AM
To: wikipedia-l(a)wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] History
2006/4/1, geraki(a)geraki.net <geraki(a)geraki.net>et>:
When someone copies some text that is under the
GFDL to a wikipedia
article, the
rule is to write about it on the bottom of the
article to pay
attribution. I
think this is not fair for users of wikipedia, as
for them the only
attribution
is in the History section. Take as an example an
article of five
paragraphs, two
from some other GFDL source and three from a user
contributions. The X
source
will me mentioned in the article, while the user
will be mentioned only
in
history, among minor edits and bot edits.
Remember that the GFDL says
that
authors should be mentioned in a section entitled
"History" not in the
Document.
The GFDL also says that authors (or at least the last author and the
five main authors of the previous document) should be shown on the
title page, which for a Wikipedia page would be the area between the
title and the start of the article. Why follow the letter of the GFDL
at one place, and follow neither letter nor spirit on another?
--
Andre Engels, andreengels(a)gmail.com
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We don't follow the spirit or letter of the GFDL at two places, and we can
make it one. The fact that it is almost impossible to put the five main
authors on the title page does not mean that we should not try to fix the
other issue. Discriminating wikipedia authors from external sources does
follow neither the letter nor the spirit of the license. We can fix this,
and we will have only the other one.
Konstantinos (geraki(a)el.wikipedia)