[Foundation-l] GFDL Q&A update and question

[Anthony]

On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 8:22 AM, Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org> wrote:

> On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 2:38 AM, Lars Aronsson <lars at aronsson.se> wrote:
>
>> Anthony wrote:
>>
>> > My complaint was that the WMF was (and still is) copying and
>> > distributing my copyrighted content in a manner other than that
>> > expressly provided under any license I have granted them.
>>
>> Apart from the "expressly" provided (GFDL), there is the tradition
>> of how Wikipedia and other wikis "have always worked", namely that
>> we sometimes cut-and-paste text between articles without fully
>> attributing the original author.  This is how wikis work, and if
>> you don't like it, you better not contribute your text.
>
>
> I've stopped.
>

By the way, I stopped during a period where the rules at least stated that
such cut-and-paste moves were unacceptable and would be fixed, and before I
realized this was never intended to be followed:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_fix_cut-and-paste_moves

The vast majority of my edits took place prior to July 2007.  Wikipedia was
a much different place back then.  There were already notions that it would
become the way it is today, but there was still hope in my mind that it
wouldn't.