https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40934

--- Comment #1 from Krinkle <[email protected]> 2012-10-10 22:33:30 UTC ---
How popular is this "standard"?

It appears these are both 404 or unintentional redirects:

* http://slashopen.net/open
* http://opendefinition.org/open

http://www.whitehouse.gov/open is referenced a fair amount in slash-open
related documentation, but I'm not sure that's fair. That is a page about the
open government policy that appears to be on that address by coincidence, it
doesn't mention anything about licensing or "free" content. In order words, it
isn't due to slash-open that that pages exists.

Regarding the general purpose of this mission, MediaWiki already implements
<link rel="copyright"> and <a rel="license"> on each page, which are more
established standards.

I'm not sure why it wants to be on /open. Probably not for machine-reading,
since those have more established to which slash-open doesn't seem to
contribute anything. If it is for human reading, then existing navigation is
probably sufficient (and better localised / integrated).

slashopen.net mentions "Mission statement", this reminds me, perhaps it is
useful to redirect /open to https://www.wikimedia.org/ instead and add a
licence + "free content" note there?

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