[WikiEN-l] Citizendium's assertions about material from Wikipedia

[Steve Summit]

Jossi Fresco wrote:
> On Apr 14, 2007, at 12:10 PM, Steve Summit wrote:
>> It appears that Citizendium has at least two catagories of pages...
>
> I see... but how can one make a distinction?

I'm not sure.  (I don't know that much about Citizendium.)

> Can I take an article from Wikipedia, remove the material contributed  
> by others (if that is ever possible), and post it elsewhere *without*  
> releasing it under the GDFL?

An article that you first wrote?  You can take the version that
you first wrote and do anything you like with it, certainly.

> I was under the impression that once I hit the save button, the  
> content I contribute to WP can only be reused under the GFDL.

Your impression is quite incorrect!  There's no way that WP could
take away your rights like that.  (If you wrote a work-for-hire,
or contracted with a publisher to publish your own copyrighted
work, your contract might have an exclusivity clause which
restricted your ability to republish the material elsewhere,
but Wikipedia has no such contract with any of its editors.)

You might want to retract the comment you made at 01:36 to
http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Talk:Sathya_Sai_Baba_Movement.
(I'd add a comment there myself, but I don't have a Citizendium
account.)