[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Travel Guide: Board statement

[emijrp]

2012/9/7 Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com>

> On 7 September 2012 20:40, Daniel Zahn <dzahn at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 7:40 AM, Rodrigo Tetsuo Argenton
> > <rodrigo.argenton at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> and I'm wondering how they will sue for importing content that is on
> free
> >> license...
> >
> > Well, it's "Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike", so will have to
> > attribute Wikitravel and the original author(s) on every single page.
> >
> > http://wikitravel.org/shared/Copyleft
>
> Why attribute Wikitravel? The license only requires the author to be
> attributed, not the first publisher. Ideally, content will be copied
> across with the page history intact, which will constitute the
> appropriate attribution (in the same way it does on Wikipedia). I
> haven't been following too closely - are there any dumps available? It
> seems unlikely it will be possible to get any now (I doubt IB can be
> compelled to provide one).
>
>
WikiTeam did some backups in 2011 but only the last version for every page,
because the server was weak and unable to provide the complete history
http://code.google.com/p/wikiteam/downloads/list?can=2&q=wikitravel

Indeed, they have started to "protect" themselves against the content
export http://wikitravel.org/en/Special:Export


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