On 17 June 2011 16:08, Marco Chiesa <chiesa.ma...@gmail.com> wrote: > To be honest, when you release your work under cc-by-sa you grant a > third party the right to reuse a (small or large) part of your work to > make a derivative work. The license in itself is not what determines > that the live version of a Wikipedia article is the last one, this > happens because of Wikipedia policies. And of course, your (old) > version is not deleted from the article history apart from a few > cases. The point is: Wikipedia is a collaborative encyclopedia, if > people don't accept this they can always publish somewhere else.
Indeed. "No ownership of articles" does not follow from the licence - it's just the way things happen to be done on Wikipedia. For comparison, I understand that Wikibooks are considered somewhat "owned" by the person starting the book. - d. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
