There is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:CC-notice on en at least specifically for the purpose of incorporating text licensed cc-by content within articles
On 27 August 2017 at 21:28, John Erling Blad <[email protected]> wrote: > In some cases we need to attribute content created on external sites, and > reused on Wikimedia-sites. In Norway Åndsverksloven says "The creator has > the right to be named according to good practice" ("Opphavsmannen har krav > på å bli navngitt slik som god skikk tilsier") and for our content that is > given by our license and our terms of use. That means by a link to the page > if possible, or if possible an entry in the history. > > Now we use a template on the page itself, or similar, but it is not the > page on our site that the external entity has provided, they have provided > the content at their site. So we must say that in some consistent way. > > I believe that the best option would be to have a log entry injected into > the history for our page that says "this revision comes in full or part > from that external source". Such an entry could be made by the editor or by > an administrator, but must be made as an extension of the revision. It > should also be possible to delete such an entry. > > An alternative could be to make the summary editable, but the summary is > the description of the revision, not the source of the revision. > > Does this make sense? Will it solve the problem, or is it just another > level that makes things more confusing? > > John Erling Blad > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> -- GN. President Wikimedia Australia WMAU: http://www.wikimedia.org.au/wiki/User:Gnangarra Photo Gallery: http://gnangarra.redbubble.com _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
