[Wikipedia-l] Metadata report solicited

[Larry Sanger]

What we've got to do is solicit (OK, I'm hereby soliciting) a
*report*--not just a mailing list-style rant or collection of opinions,
but an intelligent, long, organized, clearly-written, in-depth
*analysis*, about the issues involved in our maintaining various kinds
of metadata.  This report would (intelligently) answer the following
questions:

What kind of metadata does our license require us to maintain, if any?
What sort of metadata would be particularly useful for us to keep track
of?
What sort of metadata can be maintained *automatically* (and
accurately)?
What are the problems associated with maintaining certain kinds of
metadata by hand?  Is there *any* metadata at all that we should expect
each other to maintain by hand (and which can only be reliably, if at
all, be maintained by hand)?

I vaguely recall we have an expert or two about this sort of thing on
board!

Larry

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave McKee" <d.n.mckee at durham.ac.uk>
To: <wikipedia-l at nupedia.com>
Sent: Friday, November 16, 2001 9:51 AM
Subject: [Wikipedia-l] Re: another copyright issue


> I feel that some sort of 'Sources' namespace would be a good way of
> ensuring the information about the article has proper attributions.
> Whether it's personal knowledge (and therefore adding your name as
> someone personally knowledgeable about the subject) or lecture notes,
a
> paraphrasing from a reference or text book or copying wholesale from a
> public domain source, it'd be good to know.
>
> Perhaps we could have a third entry box for sources used when
> creating/editing an article, which appends to the 'Sources' namespace
> for quick entry, whilst still allowing the editing of the Sources
should
> the whole entry require judicious destruction / major rewriting.
>
> > Hello wikipeople!
> >
> > How can we ever be sure, that those people who (often anonymously)
write
> > new articles for wikipedia didn't just copy'n'paste it from another
> > site?
> >
> > I think we can't.
> >
> > Take for example
> > http://de.wikipedia.com/wiki.cgi?Gopher
> > http://www.uni-stuttgart.de/rus/42/internet/gopher.html
> > and chapter 2.6 here:
> > http://www.fitug.de/bildung/allgem/inetein2.html
> >
> > Is it all from the same author? Or is the wikipedia article just a
> > ('stolen') copy? Or the copy of a revised (but 'stolen') copy? Or is
the
> > source under the GNU Free Documentation License?
> >
> > How can we be sure about that?
> >
> > I think nobody wants that just authors with prooved identities (who
are
> > responsible for their writing) are allowed to contribute to
wikipedia.
> >
> > But are we on the save side if we just close our eyes and wait for
> > people to come and force us to delete articles that many people have
put
> > much work in, but that are based on their text?
> >
> > Sorry for my bad English, I'm German. If you don't understand what
I'm
> > talking about I'll try my best to make it clearer.
> >
> > Bye,
> > Kurt
> >
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