On 04/08/11 3:09 AM, WereSpielChequers wrote: > We will still have a niche in languages they aren't interested in, and > among people who care about copyright. But my suspicion is that we are > unusual, and that most potential editors are more annoyed by having > their contributions rejected by deletionists than by something in the > small print that says their words now belong to the website they've > written them on. > > ... > > Other options would be for a site that ended the > inclusionism/deletionism conflict by abandoning notability and > concentrating on verifiability or aiming for comprehensiveness. That > seems to work for IMDB but possibly you need to restrict this to > specialist pedias - aiming for coverage of all films and their cast is > one thing, but on a general pedia you need to set a threshold > somewhere unless you are prepared to have articles for pet guinea > pigs. >
I'd like to see a Wikisource type project that accepts orphan works (subject to definition) that are supposedly still protected. They could easily be taken down if a legitimate owner materializes, but otherwise could accelerate the freeing of these works. Ec _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
