The derivatives in this case are coeditor networks for each WikiProject, based on which editors have edited the same articles.
On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 2:06 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) <[email protected]> wrote: > Edward L Platt, 16/05/2018 19:23: > >> We're using the pages-meta-history XML files (user ids, timestamps, >> article ids, etc). Everything I can find on the WMF site refers to "textual >> content" which is a bit unclear about metadata. >> > > The legal page has been added only recently and it's probably unclear, but > "textual content" just means everything that is not multimedia files. The > word is used in the sense of the terms of use: > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Terms_of_use#7d> > > Our archival librarians would be a lot more comfortable if I could point >> them to something very explicit about terms of use for metadata >> > > From our point of view, that's hardly even metadata. It's just > MediaWiki-internal material, which tells little if anything about the data. > It's also below the threshold of originality and produced automatically by > a software, therefore clearly copyright ineligible. > > If this is about problems in EU, we can add a CC-0 note to waive any > hypothetical sui generis database rights on MediaWiki's internal > identifiers. But it's useless anyway, because those are generated, stored > and published in USA. > > and derivatives. >> > What derivatives? > > Federico > -- Edward L. Platt PhD Candidate, University of Michigan School of Information he/him | https://elplatt.com | @elplatt | @[email protected] Tips for stopping email overload: https://hbr.org/2012/02/stop-email-overload-1 _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
