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- From: Chitu Okoli <Chitu.Okoli AT concordia.ca>
 - To: "AcaWiki general (listserv)" <acawiki-general AT lists.ibiblio.org>
 - Subject: Re: [acawiki-general] Proposal: AcaWiki to BY-SA
 - Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2013 22:19:18 -0500
 
| I hope SJ doesn't mind, 
but I added his variation to the wiki discussion: 
http://acawiki.org/AcaWiki:License_change_proposal. I also I added my 
comment to it: I think this variation would be too confusing and 
burdensome on reusers--they would have to dig through and interpret 
history pages to verify the correct license that applies to the current 
version.  I apologize for arguing so strongly, since I'm a newcomer, but this point has really always kept me from getting more involved with AcaWiki. (Please note that I tend to agree with SJ that CC-0 is even better than CC-BY for some use cases--open data comes to mind--but I personally don't think it is the best license for a resource like AcaWiki.) I could offer an alternate proposal that could possibly permit both BY and BY-SA versions of articles in a simpler format, but before I do that, I would really like to see some more compelling reasons given in support of CC-BY for AcaWiki. I seem to remember a discussion or mention or implication some time back that CC-BY would facilitate widespread public dissemination of AcaWiki summaries. Other than reuse on CC-BY-SA sites like Wikimedia, are there other examples where AcaWiki summaries have been used in outlets that make scholarly research more visible and accessible to the general public? I really don't know, so I'm sincerely asking. I remember observing many years ago the discussion that went behind the licensing of WikiNews, which I believe is the only Wikimedia project that is not licensed CC-BY-SA (I might be mistaken, though). It was originally public domain, and is now CC-BY. The main reason for the decision was to facilitate widespread dissemination and reuse of the articles. I really don't know for sure, but it is my impression that although the project maintains a very active group of contributors, its goal of having its articles widely disseminated has never been realized. Are there other reasons for keeping AcaWiki CC-BY? I ask this with a genuine desire to learn, as I'm new here and I only know bits and pieces of the history. ~ Chitu 
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            [acawiki-general] Proposal: AcaWiki to BY-SA (again, finally, other?) (was Re:  summary reuse),
            Mike Linksvayer, 02/20/2013
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            Re: [acawiki-general] Proposal: AcaWiki to BY-SA (again, finally, other?) (was Re:  summary reuse),
            Chitu Okoli, 02/20/2013
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            Re: [acawiki-general] Proposal: AcaWiki to BY-SA (again, finally, other?) (was Re: summary reuse),
            Mike Linksvayer, 02/21/2013
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            Re: [acawiki-general] Proposal: AcaWiki to BY-SA (again, finally, other?) (was Re: summary reuse),
            Samuel Klein, 02/21/2013
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            Re: [acawiki-general] Proposal: AcaWiki to BY-SA (again, finally, other?) (was Re: summary reuse),
            Jodi Schneider, 02/21/2013
- Re: [acawiki-general] Proposal: AcaWiki to BY-SA (again, finally, other?) (was Re: summary reuse), Mike Linksvayer, 02/21/2013
 
 
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            Re: [acawiki-general] Proposal: AcaWiki to BY-SA (again, finally, other?) (was Re: summary reuse),
            Jodi Schneider, 02/21/2013
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        Re: [acawiki-general] Proposal: AcaWiki to BY-SA,
        Chitu Okoli, 02/21/2013
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            Re: [acawiki-general] Proposal: AcaWiki to BY-SA,
            Mike Linksvayer, 02/22/2013
- Re: [acawiki-general] Proposal: AcaWiki to BY-SA, Greg Grossmeier, 02/22/2013
 
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            Re: [acawiki-general] Proposal: AcaWiki to BY-SA,
            Samuel Klein, 02/22/2013
- Re: [acawiki-general] Proposal: AcaWiki to BY-SA, Mike Linksvayer, 02/22/2013
 - Re: [acawiki-general] Proposal: AcaWiki to BY-SA, Jodi Schneider, 02/22/2013
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- Re: [acawiki-general] Proposal: AcaWiki to BY-SA, Chitu Okoli, 02/24/2013
 - Re: [acawiki-general] Proposal: AcaWiki to BY-SA, Jodi Schneider, 02/28/2013
 
 
 
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            Re: [acawiki-general] Proposal: AcaWiki to BY-SA,
            Mike Linksvayer, 02/22/2013
 
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        Re: [acawiki-general] Proposal: AcaWiki to BY-SA,
        Chitu Okoli, 02/21/2013
 
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            Re: [acawiki-general] Proposal: AcaWiki to BY-SA (again, finally, other?) (was Re: summary reuse),
            Samuel Klein, 02/21/2013
 
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            Re: [acawiki-general] Proposal: AcaWiki to BY-SA (again, finally, other?) (was Re: summary reuse),
            Mike Linksvayer, 02/21/2013
 
 
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