As is, the requirement to attribute individual edits is at odds with the general concept of collective editing on a wiki.
Is there any reason why everything in WP can be put in the PD, with of course the material that is only fair use indicated? (Essentially the way the US government does it: everything in their publications is PD, unless previously copyright elsewhere.) The difference would be that others could use it without attribution to us, and we wouldn't get the publicity--but are we in it for publicity or to make an encyclopedia? DGG
On 6/6/07, Angela Anuszewski angela.anuszewski@gmail.com wrote:
You're joking, right? How would that differ from allowing the Foundation to assume copyright of all entries? If you wrote the article of the century, pretty much by yourself, some how I doubt a byline of "From Wikipedia, by Wikipedia" wherever it's mirrored would be satisfactory to you. Not without at least a link to the edit history.
If that was the way the copyrights worked, if they choose Wikipedia as the medium to publish what they have written, then they chose to accept that as the byline. You don't submit what you don't expect others to rewrite, anyway.