On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 3:40 PM, Anthony <wikim...@inbox.org> wrote: > What about text works which were licensed under CC-BY-SA but were released > somewhere other than Wikipedia? Can these be incorporated into Wikipedia? > How will their right to attribution be respected? Is this allowance of > "reference by history URL" built in to CC-BY-SA, or is it specific to > Wikipedia? >
The CC licenses give us a fair bit of room to move with regards to attribution, allowing for pseudonums, taking into account the medium, delegates (incl. publishing entities eg Wikipedia), etc. I also stumbled on this[1] in commons which is interesting in the context of the discussion about certain types of contribution (photographs) inexplicably requiring stronger attribution: "Visible tags or watermarks<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_watermarking>inside images are strongly discouraged at Wikimedia Commons. So information like "Mr. Foobar, May 2005, CC-BY-SA" shall not be written directly in the image but in EXIF fields, which is technically even superior. The reasons are: - We don't tag our Wikipedia articles with our names in a prominent way inside the article text *in order to step behind the work and let it speak for itself*, the same applies to the images (stepping behind own work and thus reducing personal vanity is crucial for neutrality<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NPOV> )." Cheers, Sam 1. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Manipulating_meta_data#Purpose_for_using_EXIF_at_Commons _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
