[Foundation-l] WikiGadugi Wikipedia Rating???

Jeffrey V. Merkey jmerkey at wolfmountaingroup.com
Mon Jan 22 02:18:03 UTC 2007


geni wrote:

>On 1/22/07, Jeffrey V. Merkey <jmerkey at wolfmountaingroup.com> wrote:
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>>Unfortunately, I do.
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>How do you need the foundation's logos to credit me?
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Under the GFDL you give consent to relicense your changes. This means 
whomever is the last editor of an article is the "Author", not the
whole chain of editors to that point since subsequent editors are simply 
relicening your content when they add their own edits. By editing and 
saving the article, the final editor is the author in this sense.

The GFDL and Wikipedia's posted policies state that Wikipedia must be 
given attrbution to comply with the GFDL. Your website is then listed
in the "Mirrors and Forks" as a BAD WEBSITE if you do not. Wikipedia 
cannot give consent to use "Wikipedia" since it does not own the
trademark, the foundation does.

Jeff




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