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What about the attribution clause? If I copy an article from a CC-BY-* wiki, am I expected to cite every contributor? That doesn't seem reasonable. How does Wik
by TillE 13y ago
What about the attribution clause? If I copy an article from a CC-BY-* wiki, am I expected to cite every contributor? That doesn't seem reasonable. How does Wikipedia (CC-BY-SA) deal with this?
- capnrefsmmat 13y agoBecause Wikipedia makes the complete edit history of every page available, they suggest simply giving a link to the article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reusing_Wikipedia_content https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reusing_Wikipedia_co...
- blueskin_ 13y agoWouldn't giving a pointer to the specific point in the edit history you sourced it from (so people can dig backwards if they care to) be enough? I'd have guessed so (IANAL, etc.).
- nandhp 13y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reusing_Wikipedia_content#Re-use_of_text_under_Creative_Commons_Attribute_Share-Alike https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reusing_Wikipedia_co... It looks like a link is sufficient, or a list of all authors, optionally omitting those with only trivial edits.
- rmc 13y agoThat was one of the reasons OpenStreetMap moved from CC to the ODbL. There are ~1 million OSM contributors and it is unclear if they all had to be attributed. So they changed the licence. http://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/License/Why_CC_BY-SA_is_Unsuitable http://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/License/Why_CC_BY-SA_is_U...
- mikeash 13y agoI'm curious, why would it be unreasonable to cite every contributor to an article you copy? They are the ones who made it, and it only seems reasonable to me to give credit where it's due.
- LukeShu 13y agoBecause the list can be huge. It's not unlikely that the list of contributors is longer than the article.
- mikeash 13y agoStorage is cheap, and you can stash the list away somewhere that doesn't interfere with the main content, so what does that matter?
- dllthomas 13y agoWhat is the difference between stashing the list away somewhere out of sight and providing a link to the Wikipedia page whose history contains the same information? Particularly since storage is not cheap in every medium (e.g. requiring my one-page flier to attach 3 pages of attributions doesn't make sense) and if you're resorting to a link regardless...
- dublinben 13y agoIf you're making a one page flyer with enough copyrighted information from Wikipedia to require onerous attribution, you're doing it wrong.
- dllthomas 13y agoI don't see that this is the case, at all. A single paragraph that has been edited enough times could be the work of an unbounded number of contributors, since it is always a derivative work of the earlier versions. If that single paragraph, modified for format, makes up the bulk of your flier then you should clearly include attribution somehow.
- mikeash 13y agoI think linking to the Wikipedia page is perfectly reasonable too. I just don't see what's unreasonable about citing the people who wrote the stuff you're using.