Re: [Wikitech-l] Keeping record of imported licensed text

2010-09-11 Thread Robert Rohde
Let me just say that getting licensing information in to a database would definitely have advantages for Commons, Wikisource, and a variety of third parties. It would also enable the development of many potentially useful extensions to Mediawiki, such as creating automatically updated attribution

Re: [Wikitech-l] Keeping record of imported licensed text

2010-09-11 Thread James Forrester
On 11 September 2010 08:40, Robert Rohde raro...@gmail.com wrote: In addition, if people are editing and changing attribution flags then there is a natural need to have version histories for license flags. In the existing system, this is accomplished by the revision histories of the pages

Re: [Wikitech-l] Keeping record of imported licensed text

2010-09-11 Thread Bryan Tong Minh
On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 1:11 AM, Dan Nessett dness...@yahoo.com wrote: After asking around, one suggestion was to keep the licensing state in the page_props table. This seems very reasonable and I would be interested in comments by this community on the idea. Of course, there has to be a way

Re: [Wikitech-l] Keeping record of imported licensed text

2010-09-11 Thread Conrad Irwin
There's a long outstanding bug [1] to ensure that accurate attribution is maintained when templates are substituted. I don't think this is the same as maintaining attribution of external imports, but it may be that whatever solution is implemented for one can be generalised to allow the other.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Community vs. centralized development

2010-09-11 Thread Jamie Morken
On 9/8/2010 10:18 AM, Aryeh Gregor wrote: Well, this is probably my last post on this subject for now.  I think I've made my points.  Those who don't get them yet probably will continue not to get them, and those who get them but disagree probably will continue to disagree.  It looks like