On 18/09/11 21:01, Bram Moolenaar wrote: > [Name?] > >> Some people use Vim to edit Wikipedia articles, and probably also to edit >> other >> wikis that use also the MediaWiki backend software. Would you please accept >> the >> MediaWiki syntax file into Vim? >> >> It's at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_editor_support#Vim in the >> first gray box. >> >> I didn't write it. I would appreciate it very much if you'd please paste a >> second copy of your comments at the very bottom of >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Text_editor_support . Just click >> the "+" tab at the top of the page. No registration required. >> >> In case it matters, the MediaWiki syntax file is probably dual-licensed. You >> can probably use it under your choice of: >> >> * the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License, or >> * the GNU Free Documentation License (unversioned, with no invariant >> sections, >> front-cover texts, or back-cover texts). > The file says: Published on Wikipedia in 2003-04 and declared authorless. > > That means there is no copyright statement and thus this file can't be > copied. > > Can the author please come forward, add a maintainer to the header, so > that we can include this in the distribution? I don't add files unless > there is a maintainer. > > What's this thing with anonymous writings? Are you afraid to tell your > mum you are using Vim and like it?
I wrote that "authorless" comment on the original version of that file, which I uploaded to Wikipedia in June 2003. It was a riff on Wikipedia's article ownership policy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Ownership_of_articles But by "published on Wikipedia", I meant to imply that it was released under Wikipedia's normal license, which was GFDL at the time, and is now CC-BY-SA. It's been edited substantially since then. Reconstructing the full author list would be non-trivial since it's part of a larger article on Wikipedia. I can't vouch for the quality of it. The quality of the original version was certainly not good enough to warrant inclusion. -- Tim Starling -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
