Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2003 22:24:13 -0700 From: Daniel Mayer maveric149@yahoo.com Anthere wrote:

Some editors estimate that according to GFDL'S, there should obligatorily be a link to the original article, to preserve the access of the history, to check the authorship of the article. Is this true?

In the absence of an actual list of authors, yes. It looks like they are using the printable version of fr.wikipedia's articles in their near real time feed. If that is true then all one of our developers has to do is make the URL text into clickable hypertext. That is something we should do anyway since it makes it easier for people to use our content while at the same time following our interpretation of the GNU FDL.

-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)

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Thanks for the answer Mav.

Yes, the webmaster is using wikipedia real time for now. The search feature is ours (note that should he have a lot of traffic, this would directly sucking up our resources). The retrieval for display is done real time as well from what I can guess. I think it wrong :-) rather parasitic behavior. But he mentionned he was currently working to install our database directly on his site.

If I understood well, you say the local link or adress to each article should be displayed. You say it is our "problem" if the urls of each article are badly displayed and broken. So we can't complain about that.

I will remember that point for further cases. In this one, I think the webmaster is well meaning. Each article displays a link to each article (even if broken), mentions the GFDL, and now added direct and working link to wikipedia on the main encyclopedia access page on his website.

Thanks

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