On 7 Sep 2012, at 21:14, Nathan <nawr...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 4:11 PM, emijrp <emi...@gmail.com> wrote: >> When we use 1911 Britannica texts, we only attribute to the encyclopedia, >> not its authors, so we can put "This text comes from Wikitravel". >> >> Anyway, if we are going to use Wikitravel texts, writing a script to scrape >> just the usernames from histories is trivial >> http://wikitravel.org/wiki/en/index.php?title=Kaprun&action=history >> > > That's not really accurate, and not how Wikimedia projects expect to > be credited either. "Wikipedia" or "Wikitravel" are not the authors of > any project content (other than, for Wikitravel, that written by > employees in the course of their employment).
We encourage attribution of Wikipedia articles as: "This article uses material from the Wikipedia article "[[Metasyntactic variable]]", which is released under the [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0]. i.e. to the project not the authors… http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:REUSE#Example_notice Thanks, Mike _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
