[Mediawiki-l] Copyright management

[NSK]

Hi,

For the needs of my projects http://www.nerdypc.org and 
http://www.adapedia.org I need the following feature in the software:

The users when they click Edit see a form with a textarea where they can 
change the article but also some radio boxes or checkboxes below the textarea 
labelled with the copyright licenses that the site supports.

If the edited page is a new article, then the user can choose any license 
he/she loves.

If the edited page is an existing article, the software needs to determine 
under which license it is available and force the user to submit his/her 
changes under the same license.

So, the first author of each wikipage will decide what license the wikipage 
will have.

Currently the supported licenses are GFDL and CC-by-sa2, but I may soon 
support more like the BSDDOC and more CC. The software needs to allow easy 
addition of new licenses.

Of course, the software will have an option (perhaps in LocalSettings.php) to 
disable this "copyright management" module and apply a single copyright 
license on the whole site, like the GFDLed Wikipedia or the GFDLed JnanaBase 
at http://jnana.wikinerds.org

Also, the user preferences could have some checkboxes where the users can 
choose what licenses they love and the software will only let them to edit 
articles marked with that licenses.

Is the MediaWiki team interested to work together in order to incorporate this 
feature in MediaWiki 1.4 ?

If you don't need it in MW, is there any developer who would like to practice 
his/her PHP skills by implementing this feature in MediaWiki 1.3.7 ?

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NSK
Admin of http://portal.wikinerds.org
Project Manager of http://www.nerdypc.org
Project Manager of http://www.adapedia.org