Let me quote User:Dgrant "if the link text says GFDL, few people will bother going to it, at least I personally wouldn't, I've already read the GFDL before." He has a point, the notice is misleading in it's current form, and I think people are discouraged from reading the Copyright page b/c the link is titled "GFDL." So, we change the notice so that the link to Wikipedia:Copyrights does not masquerade itself as the GFDL. Since we have to provide a link to the GFDL, we make it a separate link in the notice. You might not like the version that Toby Bartels, Dgrant, and I have come up with, but I still think it is not right in it's current state. I would be more than happy to change the notice in the code myself (actually, I would love to) but I wouldn't even know where to start looking.
-- Michael Becker
-----Original Message----- From: wikitech-l-bounces@Wikipedia.org [mailto:wikitech-l-bounces@Wikipedia.org] On Behalf Of Brion Vibber Sent: Monday, August 25, 2003 10.13 To: A mailing list for discussing about the technical organization of theWikipedias Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Update to gfdl copyright notice needed
Michael Becker wrote:
It has been discussed (here:
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Sites_that_use_Wikipedia_fo r_content)
that the gfdl notice on the bottom of every page needs updating. >
The following notice is the result of the discussion
"All text is available under the terms of the [[Wikipedia:Text of the GNU Free Documentation License|GNU Free Documentation
License]].
See [[Wikipedia:Copyrights]] for suggested practices."
I would like to request that as long as no one has any more
suggestion > to make on the talk page, this new notice be instituted ASAP.
Hmm, it wouldn't hurt but I don't see it as substantially different.
Also, the "Printable version" pages need to have the same notice >
(currently they don't).
The printable pages currently have the identical notice as the regular page view:
"All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License."
where "GNU Free Documentation License" is a link to [[Wikipedia:Copyrights]] which is more detailed. (Yes, it's a redirect through [[GNU FDL]] at present.)
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
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