| Cirdan added a comment. |
In T193728#4212728, @Denny wrote:And thus, since we never required to have the interwiki links attributed in the first place - as I just showed - we obviously do not seem to regard them as being copyrightable and covered by the CC-BY-SA license.
That conclusion is not correct. Wikipedia as a whole is licensed under CC-BY-SA, and that also includes the way the content is organized. Just like not every single sentence is protected by copyright, not every single interwiki connection is, but I would be surprised to learn that the structure and organization of Wikipedia's content is not protected at all.
Given my current layman's understanding, that's quite similar to software: While most (if not all) source code constructs used e.g. in Wikibase are not copyright protected, the combination and clever organization of these generic constructs very well constitutes a copyrightable work. (Actually, there will probably be many parts in Wikibase which were "written" by some IDE code completion very much like an interwiki bot "wrote" an interwiki link.)
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