> From my understanding, yes, it won't be possible to import data from > Wikipedia infoboxes etc. into a CC0 WikiData. (At least under European Union > law, where databases are protected by copyright) > > The answer from Denny Vrandečić was: "Wikidata does not plan to extract > content out of Wikipedia at all." > > The problem, I think is, that Wikipedieans just expect that this is exactly > what WikiData is actually meant for - to absorb the data stuff from > Wikipedia. And on the other hand: how useful is WikiData, if you tell the > Wikipedians, that they are not allowed to move data from Wikipedia into > WikiData?
This is the reason why I recommanded from the beginning to adopt for WikiData not the "no-restriction at all" CC0 licence but one fitted to data and respectfuil to Wikipedia's general choice of creating a common good of knowledge by ensuring the need to share the reused information (share-alike clause of CC-BY-SA) : the Open Database Licence (ODbL) from the Open Knowledge Foundation does exactly this and is already being used by ma,ny people,; including official cities or regions for example here in France. <http://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/> Unfortunately it looked back then like the decision was being taken without any real debate when it should be at the center of the project's grounds... Best, Benjamin Ooghe-Tabanou from Regards Citoyens http://www.RegardsCitoyens.org > Alex > > -- > http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer:Alexrk2 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l _______________________________________________ Wikidata-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l
