[Wikipedia-l] Copyright notice

[Jimmy Wales]

Should we have a link and terse copyright notice on every article in
Wikipedia?

I don't personally see this as being required by the license (read
carefully the parts about compilations and copyright notices, and
think of the website as a compilation).  But even if it is not, we
might still think this is a good idea, to emphasize to newcomers that
this is a free (in the GNU sense) project.

See, for example:
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States

Very nice looking, approaching a commercial quality level.  Yet,
nowhere is it made clear that this text is available under the GNU
FDL.

I would recommend a notice somewhere on the page near this:
>This page has been accessed 17682 times. The page was last modified
>08:57 Nov 24, 2002.

This email was inspired by Bryce's actions and complaints.

--Jimbo