[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Travel Guide: Board statement

[Michael Peel]

On 7 Sep 2012, at 21:14, Nathan <nawrich at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 4:11 PM, emijrp <emijrp at gmail.com> wrote:
>> When we use 1911 Britannica texts, we only attribute to the encyclopedia,
>> not its authors, so we can put "This text comes from Wikitravel".
>> 
>> Anyway, if we are going to use Wikitravel texts, writing a script to scrape
>> just the usernames from histories is trivial
>> http://wikitravel.org/wiki/en/index.php?title=Kaprun&action=history
>> 
> 
> That's not really accurate, and not how Wikimedia projects expect to
> be credited either. "Wikipedia" or "Wikitravel" are not the authors of
> any project content (other than, for Wikitravel, that written by
> employees in the course of their employment).

We encourage attribution of Wikipedia articles as:

"This article uses material from the Wikipedia article "[[Metasyntactic variable]]", which is released under the [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0].

i.e. to the project not the authors…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:REUSE#Example_notice

Thanks,
Mike