I just noticed something a bit amusing. Science Daily has an Encyclopedia section now that uses Wikipedia content. Now I don't have any problem with that and in fact think that it is great since they provide the credit, links and mention of the GNU FDL that we require. However they seem to include /all/ pages from en.wikipedia including user pages, wikipedia pages, talk pages and special pages (minus the dynamic stuff).
Example: http://www.sciencedaily.com/encyclopedia/user:maveric149
Would it be possible to have backup dumps of just pages in the article namespace with footers that have all the attribution/license stuff we require? That would make third party use of our content more clean.
Oh and that also reminds me that the url on the print versions of pages is not an active link. Could somebody make that an active link so that all third parties would have to do to comply with our copyright terms is copy the print versions of articles?
-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)
On Mon, 17 Nov 2003, Daniel Mayer wrote:
Example: http://www.sciencedaily.com/encyclopedia/user:maveric149
Would it be possible to have backup dumps of just pages in the article namespace with footers that have all the attribution/license stuff we require? That would make third party use of our content more clean.
If they have pages from all namespaces, it seems that they are web-mirroring the site (and reformatting it), instead of using the backup dumps.
Ciao, Alfio
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