On Sat, Oct 21, 2017 at 4:11 AM, Erik Moeller <eloque...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 20, 2017 at 12:51 AM, James Salsman <jsals...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Should interactive web, internet of things, or offline services >> relying on Foundation encyclopedia CC-BY-SA content be required to >> attribute authorship by specifying the revision date from which the >> transluded content is derived? > I don't think there's a sufficiently strong justification for > modifying the manner of attribution specified in the "Terms of Use", If the requirement to attribute "Through a list of all authors" when hyperlinking isn't possible, such as with read-only displays or audio output, were replaced with requiring to say that the content is from a Wikipedia article with a given title and date, that would certainly give more information about the actual authorship than a list of mostly pseudonyms. > which in any case would only apply to re-use of future revisions of > CC-BY-SA/CC-BY content that's not also exempted by "fair use". I don't think it would be difficult to convince content reusers to go along with that. It would protect them against liability from hoaxes, provide actual attribution information for those who want or need it, and 30 years down the road when free license grants start expiring.... > As a best practice, I do believe including timestamp or version > information is helpful both for re-users themselves and for end users. > [[Progressive disclosure]] keeps such information manageable. In my > own re-use of CC-0 data from Wikidata, Open Library and similar > sources, I do include timestamp information along with the source. > Example re-use from Wikidata: > https://lib.reviews/static/uploads/last-sync.png If only our brand ambassadors were as interested in best practices! I know they are, and once fundraising season rolls around there's going to be the usual press barrage of interviews. Let's give them something good to say so that would-be editors know we're the kind of people who want to protect them from unattributed hoaxes. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
