I created an initial wikipedia article, with much of the content coming from the mapnik faq page. Wikipedia raised a red flag because of concerns of plagiarism, and asked me to get permission from the authors, or it will be quickly deleted.
It went on the explain that text imported from other sites into Wikipedia articles must be licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 3.0 Unported License<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_Creative_Commons_Attribution-ShareAlike_3.0_Unported_License>(CC-BY-SA) (CC-BY-SA compatible licenses are also accepted, as, of course, is release into public domain). When asking for permission, you should explain that this means that 1. The text may be freely redistributed and used. 2. It may be freely modified, and modified versions may also be freely redistributed and used. 3. In all cases, CC-BY-SA requires proper attribution of the author(s). 4. CC-BY-SA allows commercial re-uses provided such re-use is also under CC-BY-SA. By the way I plagiarised the above information from Wikipedia. If you do not want me to use this text, let me know and I'll delete the article. If it is okay let me know and I'll take the next step of uploading the text to Commons. Do you want to show the mapnik logo in the article. If so I need to follow the same procedure to use the image. Jim On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 4:48 PM, James McManus <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Dane, > > I'll give it a go. > > Jim > > > On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 2:07 PM, Dane Springmeyer <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Want to help out the Mapnik project? >> >> Help get the Mapnik Wikipedia entry started: >> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mapnik >> http://trac.mapnik.org/ticket/194 >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mapnik-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/mapnik-users >> > >
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