[Foundation-l] WMF blog post on Italian Wikipedia

[Theo10011]

Possibly relevant update:

http://www.rainews24.rai.it/it/news.php?newsid=157111  (might need
translation)

Theo

On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 8:43 PM, Thomas Morton
<morton.thomas at googlemail.com>wrote:

> On 5 October 2011 16:07, <onthebrinkandfalling at aol.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: emijrp <emijrp at gmail.com>
> >
> >
> > >By the way, our free licenses also need to show the text authors.
> Thousand
> > >people re-use the contents and link to the Wikipedia page. As far as I
> > know,
> > >no history is available now at Italian Wikipedia to look up.
> CC-BY-SA/GFDL
> > >violation?
> >
> >
> > If that were really an issue, Articles would never be allowed to be
> > deleted. An example:
> >
> >
> http://unicornbacon.com/blog/2007/05/06/weird-wiki-markovian-parallax-denigrate/hascontent from Wikipedia,
> > with a link to the article on EnWp:
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markovian_parallax_denigrate The article
> > has since been deleted via AfD - so all re-use of that article that
> existed
> > prior to deletion now has broken attribution.
> >
> >
> > Of course, I'm not sure if WMF has really looked in-depth at this, from a
> > legal angle.
> >
>
> This actually came up recently on English Wikipedia relating to someone
> mirroring deleted articles. I think the conclusion was that they did need
> to
> list the contributors somehow to comply with the license.
>
> Tom
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