On 12/13/11 9:02 AM, geni wrote: > Actually it is extremely unclear why we switched. There are in fact a > number of re-users that managed to deal with the attribution issue in > paper form.
It can often be done on paper (and easily on the web), but it's not very convenient for audio, i.e. spoken wikipedia articles. In the days of the GFDL you not only had to recite the entire list of contributors, but also the full text of the GFDL! Our primary goal should be to spread knowledge, not to ensure that we are prominently credited as individuals. Proper attribution is important, but it shouldn't be a higher priority than making our content easy to reuse and disseminate in a wide variety of mediums. Using a URL allows attribution without creating a hardship for the reuser. This has the added benefit of allowing us to enforce our terms firmly and consistantly, rather than carving out exceptions for various cases and having inconsistencies between what we require on paper and what we actually expect from reusers. Ryan Kaldari _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
