... Oh, actually now I see at the top of the English Wikipedia source
editing page: Work submitted to Wikipedia can be edited, used, and
redistributed—by anyone—subject to certain terms and conditions.
As far I recall, however, it was near the Save button, and it definitely
said something more
I remember edited mercilessly as well...
The current message is from
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Editpage-head-copy-warn and
dates from 2012. I wonder if this was changed when the ToU came in?
An unscientific hint is that posters to the Wikimedia mailing lists
more or less stopped
Hello,
This text has been a part of the five pillars for a long time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Five_pillars
Wikipedia is free content that anyone can use, edit, and distribute: Since
all editors freely license their work to the public, no editor owns an
article and any
The merciless was used in the standardised messages decided by
referendum in 2009:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Licensing_update#Proposed_terms_of_use
It got lost in the implementation in 2009:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Licensing_update/Implementation#Terms_for_edit_screen
And then the
On 3 December 2014 at 05:08, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il
wrote:
Hi,
I have a vague recollection that when I started editing the English
Wikipedia ten years ago, there was a notice near the Save button, which
said something like this: Your changes will be edited mercilessly.
It's still on the WIkimedia UK wiki, but only visible when you are in the
edit window (as below). I always thought it was really harsh and
unwelcoming.
Please note that all contributions to Wikimedia UK are considered to be
released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike (see
Thanks Nemo and James.
In case you haven't guessed already, I am wondering whether having this
message is a good idea or a bad idea.
I don't really know and I can only make some guesses.
I knew what a wiki was when I first encountered Wikipedia in 2004. Because
of this, the edited mercilessly
Lane Rasberry wrote:
This text has been a part of the five pillars for a long time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Five_pillars
Nice find. For the curious, the phrase was added to the Five pillars
page in May 2005, seemingly copied from the user interface:
