Yes, CC-BY is great.

On Thu Jan 08 2015 at 7:01:12 AM Markus Krötzsch <
[email protected]> wrote:

> On 08.01.2015 15:10, [email protected] wrote:
> > Prior to viewing Markus Krötzsch's Wikidata page, I was unaware of the
> > "Wikidata: A Free Collaborative Knowledgebase" article [1] written by
> > Denny Vrandečić and Markus Krötzsch.  This is a very helpful article
> > that in my opinion should be featured on the Wikidata main page.
>
> Glad you liked it. Checking the Wikidata item, I notice that it is
> actually Open Access and not "all rights reserved". It is available for
> free ("forever") from the ACM [1], but it seems they do not define any
> license. However, as we have retained all the rights, we can do what we
> like there.
>
> Denny, shall we use CC-BY?
>
> Markus
>
> [1] http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2014/10/178785-wikidata/fulltext
>
>
> >
> > [1] http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2014/10/178785-wikidata/fulltext
> >
> > Regards,
> > James Weaver
> >
> > On Wed, Jan 7, 2015, at 05:14 PM, Markus Krötzsch wrote:
> >> Irrespective of the general policy discussion, I have now been bold and
> >> changed my item and user page to record that relationship as by my
> >> earlier suggestion (as copied below):
> >>
> >> https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18618630
> >>
> >> I was wondering if, given that we have single signon, "website account
> >> on" should point to "Wikidata" or to "Wikimedia" or something else. But
> >> besides this minor point this seems to be a nice way to have COI
> >> declarations in the data (would also be interesting to know which living
> >> people have official Wikimedia accounts).
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >>
> >> Markus
> >>
> >> On 07.01.2015 15:25, Markus Krötzsch wrote:
> >> ...
> >>>
> >>> In addition, there should be a template that one can use on one's user
> >>> page to disclose that one is the person described in a certain item.
> >>> Conversely, we should also use our "website account on" property (P553)
> >>> to connect living people to their Wikidata user account, so the COI is
> >>> recorded in the data. One could further disclose other COIs on one's
> >>> user page in some standard format, but maybe with Wikidata we could
> >>> actually derive such COIs automatically (your family members, the
> >>> companies you founded, the university you graduated from, etc. can all
> >>> be specified in data).
> >>>
> >>> Cheers,
> >>>
> >>> Markus
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
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