Hey James,
great work. I took a crack at making the text a bit more unique from
the FAQ (and found some errors of mine in the process! ya right mapnik
works on PPC Macs :) ), and took the liberty to delete the warning,
since my sense is anyone can remove that other than creator of the
page (thanks for spearheading!).
So, looks great, let's just continue to add to it/improve as a group
and we should be rolling...
Logo seems reasonable too. Perhaps we need to state the licensing on
the logo (which I'm not sure about) somewhere on the Mapnik.org site....
Dane
On Jun 20, 2009, at 5:11 PM, James McManus wrote:
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 (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
The text may be freely redistributed and used.
It may be freely modified, and modified versions may also be freely
redistributed and used.
In all cases, CC-BY-SA requires proper attribution of the author(s).
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
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