On 29/10/2007, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 10/29/07, Eugene van der Pijll
<eugene(a)vanderpijll.nl> wrote:
Not really, 99% of our text is written by
Wikipedians, who have no
expectation to be prominently attributed; we have taken many of our best
pictures from outsiders, many of whom expect more prominent credit to be
given. They don't care about, and haven't ever explicitly agreed to
Wikipedia's internal rules on attribution.
Cite?
Text on Wikipedia is almost universally released under GFDL
specifically to be used on Wikipedia. We rarely take text from
anywhere else except in specific quotes, which we would always
attribute (no point quoting someone without saying who you're
quoting), and are used under fair use rather than being released under
a certain license, anyway. We often take images from other places
where they have been released under a variety of licenses, often we no
intention for them to be used on Wikipedia. There is a big difference.
(Whether or not it's a legally significant difference, I don't know,
but it is a big difference.)