[Foundation-l] WikiGadugi Wikipedia Rating???

Dmcdevit dmcdevit at cox.net
Sun Jan 21 23:59:13 UTC 2007


geni wrote:
> On 1/21/07, Dominic McDevitt-Parks <dmcdevit at cox.net> wrote:
>   
>> There are a few problems with the site currently. In order to be in
>> compliance, you must also credit Wikipedia as your source
>>     
>
> Please read the GFDL before makeing comments like this.
>
>   
>> . I'm clicking
>> "random page" and not seeing any articles that do this. They are just
>> direct copies with no reference to Wikipedia. You should have a note,
>> perhaps at the bottom of the page, like:
>>
>> This article is licensed under the <a href="gfdl.html">
>>  GNU Free Documentation License</a>. It uses material from the
>>  <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/">Wikipedia</a> article <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/foo">
>> "Foo"</a>.
>>
>>     
>
> This is painfully wrong.
>
>   
This is a copy-and-paste from Wikipedia's own information pages on the 
matter. I won't claim to be the expert here. Perhaps you could fix them 
then, or maybe even *say* what the problem is?

Dominic



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