[cc-community] Attribution to a site, or to the individual contributors
Chris Watkins
chriswaterguy at appropedia.org
Sat Apr 26 22:46:39 EDT 2008
In the CC article I wrote:
"Licenses for a site may give attribution to the site, rather than to the
individual contributors.... The Wikinews Licensure
Poll<http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikinews-l/2005-September/000329.html>."
However, I mentioned that concept to Prof Graham Greenleaf of UNSW, and he
was skeptical. Is it possible to give attribution to a site?
If not, Wikia* seems to have a good approach to attribution - e.g. at the
Search Wikia's page,
Structure<http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&ct=res&cd=2&url=http%3A%2F%2Fsearch.wikia.com%2Fwiki%2FMini%3AStructure&ei=v-UTSKu5CoeSpwTgp8yUAg&usg=AFQjCNFthw8CZ87PtADb5mXco4feK5J7BA&sig2=nl667AwQAj_YK2IMLLiLTg>,
is a template that says: "The list of authors can be seen in the *page
history*<http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Structure&action=history>.
As with Wikia Search, the text of Wikipedia is available under the GNU Free
Documentation License<http://www.wikia.com/wiki/Text_of_the_GNU_Free_Documentation_License>
."
Can anyone clarify this? Thanks!
*Wikia is GFDL - perhaps that has clearer attribution requirements?
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