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"Wikipedia is free content that anyone can use, edit, and distribute: Since all editors freely license their work to the public, no editor owns an article and any contributions can and will be mercilessly edited and redistributed. Respect copyright laws, and never plagiarize from sources. Borrowing non-free media is sometimes allowed as fair use, but strive to find free alternatives first." yours, On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 8:15 AM, Andrew Gray <andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk> wrote: > I remember "edited mercilessly" as well... > > The current message is from > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Editpage-head-copy-warn and > dates from 2012. I wonder if this was changed when the ToU came in? > > An unscientific hint is that posters to the Wikimedia mailing lists > more or less stopped using "mercilessly" in 2009 ;-) > > Andrew. > > On 3 December 2014 at 13:11, Amir E. Aharoni > <amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il> wrote: > > ... Oh, actually now I see at the top of the English Wikipedia source > > editing page: "Work submitted to Wikipedia can be edited, used, and > > redistributed—by anyone—subject to certain terms and conditions." > > > > As far I recall, however, it was near the Save button, and it definitely > > said something more hard-core, like "it will be edited mercilessly". > > > > And I can't find anything like that in the Visual Editor. > > > > > > -- > > Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי > > http://aharoni.wordpress.com > > “We're living in pieces, > > I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore > > > > 2014-12-03 15:08 GMT+02:00 Amir E. Aharoni <amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il > >: > > > >> Hi, > >> > >> I have a vague recollection that when I started editing the English > >> Wikipedia ten years ago, there was a notice near the Save button, which > >> said something like this: "Your changes will be edited mercilessly". > >> > >> I remember similar notices in other languages as well, though even more > >> vaguely. > >> > >> I don't see it now. I checked English, Hebrew and Russian. > >> > >> Does anybody know why was it removed? Did the editors communities just > >> decide independently to remove it for whatever reason? If it was, I'd > love > >> to see links to discussions if anybody has them. Or was it a design > >> decision by the Foundation? > >> > >> Thanks! > >> > >> -- > >> Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי > >> http://aharoni.wordpress.com > >> “We're living in pieces, > >> I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore > >> > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > > > > -- > - Andrew Gray > andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > -- Lane Rasberry user:bluerasberry on Wikipedia 206.801.0814 l...@bluerasberry.com _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
