On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 8:22 AM, Anthony <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 2:38 AM, Lars Aronsson <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Anthony wrote: >> >> > My complaint was that the WMF was (and still is) copying and >> > distributing my copyrighted content in a manner other than that >> > expressly provided under any license I have granted them. >> >> Apart from the "expressly" provided (GFDL), there is the tradition >> of how Wikipedia and other wikis "have always worked", namely that >> we sometimes cut-and-paste text between articles without fully >> attributing the original author. This is how wikis work, and if >> you don't like it, you better not contribute your text. > > > I've stopped. >
By the way, I stopped during a period where the rules at least stated that such cut-and-paste moves were unacceptable and would be fixed, and before I realized this was never intended to be followed: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_fix_cut-and-paste_moves The vast majority of my edits took place prior to July 2007. Wikipedia was a much different place back then. There were already notions that it would become the way it is today, but there was still hope in my mind that it wouldn't. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
