2009/3/15 Charlotte Webb <[email protected]>: > 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 > as an alias for: > http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=46634&action=history > or have it forward to something like this better yet if it can be > tweaked to accept a `page_id` parameter instead of a title (ideally > made part of the software proper): > http://toolserver.org/~daniel/WikiSense/Contributors.php?wikilang=en&wikifam=.wikipedia.org&grouped=on&page=Xenu
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 link was correct at the time, they could point to having followed the Wikimedia FAQ on the subject and completely demonstrate a good-faith attempt to keep to the license per wording and guidelines? This is what "law is squishy" means. It's not sane or reasonable to require that the Foundation's guidelines specify only actions that would be mathematically provably robust in all possible circumstances for an indefinite time into the future; in civil litigation, as any such suit would be, one does in fact get a lot of points for doing the reasonable thing to the best of one's abilities. - d. - d. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
