[Foundation-l] Reuse policy

[Gerard Meijssen]

Hoi,
There is only one way to cite a Wikipedia article with a reasonable chance
of success and that is by referring to the permalink.
Thanks,
       GerardM

2009/6/15 Chad <innocentkiller at gmail.com>

> On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 3:05 PM, geni<geniice at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 2009/6/15 Brian <Brian.Mingus at colorado.edu>:
> >> The WMF hosted version is considered a stable copy - it's safe to link
> to
> >> and you have every reasonable assumption that it will continue to exist.
> >
> > The project as a whole to an extent. Individual articles not
> > really.Their habit of being moved merged deleted or otherwise messed
> > with means that they can hardly be considered stable.
> >
> >
> > --
> > geni
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> Very true! Plain and simple: URLs on the internet are horribly
> unstable and make for terribly inaccurate attribution. Cool URLs
> may not change[1], but I think the majority of the internet missed
> the memo and are content using non-cool URLs :)
>
> -Chad
>
> [1] http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI
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