[Foundation-l] How I should consider GFDL in shared content?
effe iets anders
effeietsanders at gmail.com
Mon Aug 28 09:06:49 UTC 2006
Ask the community to request the import-function. That function allows
you to import an article from another wiki with keeping the history
intact.
Lodewijk
2006/8/28, James Hare <messedrocker at gmail.com>:
> Yes, but that won't work out if the Wikipedia version gets deleted, as
> dicdefs tend to do.
>
> On 8/28/06, Tomasz Ganicz <polimerek at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > 2006/8/28, James Hare <messedrocker at gmail.com>:
> > > Don't worry about it -- articles as transwikied from Wikipedia to
> > Wiktionary
> > > all the time.
> > >
> > > To successfuly transwiki an article, you copy and paste the article to
> > > Wiktionary, then copy the edit history from Wikipedia to the talk page
> > of
> > > the new page you made at Wiktionary. Then you list the transwiki at the
> > > Transwiki Log on Wikipedia, then the fate of the Wikipedia version will
> > be
> > > decided.
> > >
> > > Excuse me if I made it sound confusing -- feel free to ask for
> > > clarification.
> > >
> > > On 8/28/06, valdelli at bluemail.ch <valdelli at bluemail.ch> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I have a doubt. GFDL used by Wikipedia said that the content is free
> > > > but "providing that its authors are attributed".
> > > >
> > > > In this case the history is strictly connected to the content. I
> > > > could use content but I should have the related history.
> > > >
> > > > If I transfer an article from a project to another (i.e. from
> > > > Wikipedia to Wikitionary) how I could respect this rule? The history
> > > > is in the old article, I don't know a way to transfer also the
> > > > history. The presence of a link in the new article linked to the old
> > > > could be a good choice?
> > > >
> > > > If I transfer the content and I delete the article in the old
> > > > position, what I could do in this case?
> > > >
> > > > Regards
> > > >
> > > > Ilario
> >
> > Or you can just add info at the bottom of the article about its source
> > and link to the source artilce's history.
> >
> > --
> > Tomek "Polimerek" Ganicz
> > http://www.ceti.pl/kganicz/poli/kontakt.html
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