From: "Tim Marklew" <tmarklew(a)hotmail.com>
Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 6:56 PM
I wrote:
>As far as I understand it, users of our material have to provide history
of
>contributors, and we suggest that they link back
to our article to fulfil
>this obligation. Alternatively, there is nothing to stop them just
copying
>our history and use that instead, without linking
to us (strictly, they
may
not even have
to credit 'Wikipedia' at all).
Looks like I was wrong here: section 4J of
the FDL *requires* giving the
network location of previous versions of the document, so they would have
to
link back to the original text. I think the
Wikipedia:Copyrights page
could
do with changing to make that clearer.
Also note section 4K of the GFDL which requires preserving pre existing
acknowledgements and dedications.
Tim (Enchanter)
Simple Science Wiki Is still using subpages, so I've just put a /Credits
subpage for each article where appropriate. It has text appropriate to the
usage, such as, "The first version of this article was based on text
originally from
http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/blah of [[Wikipedia]]" where
the wiki-link leads to a short blurb explaining and thanking Wikipedia.
Would it be possible to add a Credits: namespace that, like the Talk:
namespace would track a given article? That way we could put credits,
links-back, links to any invariant texts, et cetera ad nauseum. We could
even put in hardcopy references, which would be useful and keep 'em from
cluttering a document. Best of all, it's unobtrusive but easily accessible.
Just a suggestion, your mileage may vary, code requirements may not permit,
and a half-dozen other disclaimers. :)
-- April
(Another shameless plug for
http://www.renaissoft.com/april/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Simple_Science_Wiki .)