Re: [Foundation-l] Proposed revised attribution language

2009-03-15 Thread Michael Snow
Anthony wrote: > On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 8:55 PM, Michael Snow wrote: > >> Anthony wrote: >> a) a link (URL) to the history page of the article or other page that contains the authorship information of the articles you are re-using. >>> For offline copies, that

Re: [Foundation-l] Proposed revised attribution language

2009-03-15 Thread Anthony
On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 8:55 PM, Michael Snow wrote: > Anthony wrote: > >> a) a link (URL) to the history page of the article > >> or other page that contains the authorship > >> information of the articles you are re-using. > >> > > For offline copies, that would likewise be no attribution at al

Re: [Foundation-l] Proposed revised attribution language

2009-03-15 Thread geni
2009/3/16 Ray Saintonge : > So, if I want to give to give a mug with an erotic description of the > Kama Sutra to my girl friend, I also need to give her this list of > authors. Are there really people here who would be so law-abiding that > they would threaten their love-life with that kind of an

Re: [Foundation-l] Proposed revised attribution language

2009-03-15 Thread geni
2009/3/16 David Gerard : > You have failed to establish how that makes any difference - it > doesn't. The reason for it being there makes no difference as to > whether people know what a URL is when they see it in print. Interesting claim I'm not aware of any testing. If we limit ourselves to in

Re: [Foundation-l] Proposed revised attribution language

2009-03-15 Thread David Gerard
2009/3/16 Andre Engels : > On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 1:59 AM, David Gerard wrote: >> Indeed. The claim is meaningless and querulous noise. Printed objects >> commonly have a URL on them these days. Listing a source or history >> short URL would do the job it's intended to. > True, but those are no

Re: [Foundation-l] Proposed revised attribution language

2009-03-15 Thread Andre Engels
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 1:59 AM, David Gerard wrote: > 2009/3/16 Michael Snow : >> Anthony wrote: > >>> For offline copies, that would likewise be no attribution at all. > >> Can we please drop the nonsense that a URL is "no attribution at all" in >> an offline context? I've made this point before

Re: [Foundation-l] Proposed revised attribution language

2009-03-15 Thread David Gerard
2009/3/16 Michael Snow : > Anthony wrote: >> For offline copies, that would likewise be no attribution at all. > Can we please drop the nonsense that a URL is "no attribution at all" in > an offline context? I've made this point before, but URLs do not > suddenly become devoid of meaning just bec

Re: [Foundation-l] Proposed revised attribution language

2009-03-15 Thread Phil Nash
Ray Saintonge wrote: >> geni wrote: >>> 2009/3/15 Charlotte Webb : >>> On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 3:39 PM, Ray Saintonge wrote: >> If the people producing the mugs want that they are free to >> produce a version of the history on their servers or more >> legally more solid inclu

Re: [Foundation-l] Proposed revised attribution language

2009-03-15 Thread Michael Snow
Anthony wrote: >> a) a link (URL) to the history page of the article >> or other page that contains the authorship >> information of the articles you are re-using. >> > For offline copies, that would likewise be no attribution at all. > Can we please drop the nonsense that a URL is "no attr

Re: [Foundation-l] Proposed revised attribution language

2009-03-15 Thread Ray Saintonge
geni wrote: > 2009/3/15 Charlotte Webb : > >> On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 3:39 PM, Ray Saintonge wrote: >> If the people producing the mugs want that they are free to produce a version of the history on their servers or more legally more solid include a sheet of paper with a com

Re: [Foundation-l] Proposed revised attribution language

2009-03-15 Thread Anthony
On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 6:31 AM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen wrote: > Erik Moeller wrote: > > a) a link > > (URL) to the article or articles you are re-using, > As I have said on a few occasions now in a few > threads, this is of course no attribution at all. > Unfortunately, 4 out of 5 people disagr

Re: [Foundation-l] Proposed revised attribution language

2009-03-15 Thread David Gerard
2009/3/15 geni : > Wikimedia is not a party to the license therefor it's FAQ is of no > relevance. The answer again goes to the license text. "You must...keep > intact all copyright notices for the Work and provide ,reasonable to > the medium or means You are utilizing: (i) the name of the Origina

Re: [Foundation-l] Proposed revised attribution language

2009-03-15 Thread geni
2009/3/15 David Gerard : > Would this mean the vicious lunatic arsehole contributor (note I don't > say "hypothetical" there, there are quite enough real-world examples > of unbalanced nutters out to nail us on anything) who takes the > mug-maker to court would win, or lose? To what extent? If the

Re: [Foundation-l] Proposed revised attribution language

2009-03-15 Thread geni
2009/3/15 Charlotte Webb : > On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 3:39 PM, Ray Saintonge wrote: >>> If the people producing the mugs want that they are free to produce a >>> version of the history on their servers or more legally more solid >>> include a sheet of paper with a complete list of authors with the

Re: [Foundation-l] Proposed revised attribution language

2009-03-15 Thread David Gerard
2009/3/15 Charlotte Webb : > This would still give the wrong data if the page has been moved to > [[Xenu (Scientology)]] and the [[Xenu (disambiguation)]] is moved to > [[Xenu]], which isn't a totally unreasonable outcome. > You'd have to use something like: > http://en.wikipedia.org/authors/46634

Re: [Foundation-l] Proposed revised attribution language

2009-03-15 Thread Charlotte Webb
On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 3:39 PM, Ray Saintonge wrote: >> If the people producing the mugs want that they are free to produce a >> version of the history on their servers or more legally more solid >> include a sheet of paper with a complete list of authors with the mug. > > It's hard to know who's

Re: [Foundation-l] Attribution survey, first results

2009-03-15 Thread Nikola Smolenski
Дана Wednesday 04 March 2009 19:00:25 Thomas Dalton написа: > maintaining what they consider adequate attribution). The options > given, in order of simplest to most difficult are: > > No credit > Credit to "Wikipedia" (or similar) > Link to article > Link to history > link online, full list of aut

Re: [Foundation-l] Proposed revised attribution language

2009-03-15 Thread David Goodman
If you can link to the article you can link to the history. We already have that mechanism. The problem I see is that people will link to a specific version, and though that satisfies the licensing requirements, and is necessary academically for tracing the actual sources and authors, in most case

Re: [Foundation-l] Proposed revised attribution language

2009-03-15 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
Erik Moeller wrote: > a) a link > (URL) to the article or articles you are re-using, As I have said on a few occasions now in a few threads, this is of course no attribution at all. This needs sorely to be worded something like a) a link (URL) to the history page of the article or other page th

Re: [Foundation-l] Proposed revised attribution language

2009-03-15 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
Thomas Dalton wrote: > > I think you misunderstand what we're discussing here. We're talking > about what forms of attribution are acceptable for people using our > content under CC-BY-SA. We're saying that attribution by URL is > acceptable for people using the content under CC-BY-SA. > Well,

Re: [Foundation-l] Licensing update committee open for membership applications

2009-03-15 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, People have one reputation. This reputation is for the WMF with the nick they are known by. Being on this committee is a poisoned chalice anyway because they will never be able to satisfy everyone. Thanks, GerardM 2009/3/14 geni > 2009/3/13 Erik Moeller : > > The licensing update comm