On 3/2/06, Anthony DiPierro wikilegal@inbox.org wrote:
You could always mix the two. Relicense some parts and rewrite the rest. Of course, figuring out which parts are relicensed and which aren't is almost as hard as just rewriting the thing.
There might be automated ways to do it -- massive database crunches to see who wrote one in an existing article, whether they were under the new scheme, what exactly would need to be rewritten/removed/whatever. But that's a little out of my league, technically speaking -- I don't know if it is feasible in terms of processing power, the amount of time it would take to code the whole thing, etc. (it probably isn't).
The first approach is of course viable. At the very worst it could be done with the same amount of time it took to create the current version. But in practice it'd be easier. Plus, you could fact check and reference while you're at it.
I imagine it would take a lot less time -- the number of editors has grown dramatically since then, so hypothetically there are already huge resources available. Hypothetically.
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