‫בתאריך יום א׳, 22 בדצמ׳ 2019 ב-13:31 מאת ‪Andy Mabbett‬‏ <‪
a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk‬‏>:‬

> On Sun, 22 Dec 2019 at 06:19, effe iets anders <effeietsand...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > I remember bringing this up several years ago at Dutch Wikipedia, and
> from
> > what I recall, there were people that don't want the import function to
> be
> > active on their wiki for more fundamental reasons (they don't want old
> > versions to exist that were not created on their own wiki).
>
> Does that mean that they don't want to give proper attribution when
> they use others' work?
>
>
Some people in several Wikimedia wikis think that importing versions is
necessary for attribution for legal reasons. As far as I know, it isn't. I
don't know what is the origin of this idea. I never saw a legal text that
require this. The Wikimedia Terms of Use say that a hyperlink to the
original in the edit summary is sufficient.
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