2009/2/2 phoebe ayers <phoebe.w...@gmail.com>: > Which is fine if you're reprinting the whole article, but what if > you're just reprinting the lede, or some other section of an article? > Should a reuser still be required to reprint 2 pages of credits for a > paragraph of article? That seems onerous. Note that just reprinting a > *section* of an article is how many print reuse cases have worked to > date (the German encyclopedia and our CafePress bumperstickers come to > mind), and this case is not something that we've discussed much so > far.
Very few articles require a page's worth of credit. Remember even the German has an average of 23.65 edits per page and the midpoint is likely much lower. > And having just actually done this, with a real book and a real > publisher, in "How Wikipedia Works," I can attest that it's a > non-trivial amount of work to get author lists for articles -- > removing duplication, IPs, formatting, etc is all a good deal of work > -- and I like to think I understand how histories work. It would be a > much bigger task for someone who didn't understand histories or the > license. It is true we need an extension built into mediawiki to handle at least part of this. > The Wikiblame tool, if it were made widely accessible and prominently > integrated into the site, seems like a promising solution. In the > meantime, I think we ought to consider what "proper credit" is for > just reusing a part of an article, versus the whole thing. > > -- phoebe Legally you are required to credit every author who's work that section is a derivative of. -- geni _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l