Erik Moeller wrote:
We have to determine whether Wikipedia as a whole is
"the document" or
whether individual articles are. In my opinion, the English Wikipedia is
no more a single document than the combined English and German Wikipedias
are -- the English Wikipedia is an aggregation of separately FDL-licensed
articles. This is clear because each document has a separate "history"
section, a separate license footer, and most documents have different
contributors.
On the other hand, we've indicated intent to publish a paper version of
the encyclopedia, which would very clearly be a single document. Or are
we claiming it wouldnt' be? If each Wikipedia article is a separate
document, any paper version we produce would have to have a list of five
authors and the "history" section on *every single* article, which would
take up a pretty large percentage of the total encyclopedia.
-Mark