On 6/12/06, Oskar Sigvardsson oskarsigvardsson@gmail.com wrote:
On 6/12/06, Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com wrote:
On 6/12/06, John Lee johnleemk@gawab.com wrote:
idea to only allow minors to edit with parental permission. Again, though, we'd lose some editors, and we'd have to present this same screen to every anon editor. Sigh...
Is it such an issue with anons?
Steve
Why wouldn't it be? They would have to release their writings under the GFDL too, just like regular people (remember, that's a condition of the GFDL, that all derivate works, ie every edit on wikipedia that was based on an earlier edit, are under the GFDL too).
--Oskar
The reality of the situation is that Wikipedia relies on trust as much as (if not more than) it relies on law. Sure, a minor could contribute to Wikipedia and then back out of the license. Depending how much they contributed, it could wreak a lot of havoc for a lot of people.
Stopping minors from contributing unless they first get parental permission would probably wreak even more havoc for even more people, though.
Anthony