Re: migrating Wikipedia to Creative Commons

Since I haven't heard any screams of indignation, I'll keep up with 
this. I've posted the draft for editing on my wikipedia user page: 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Crazyeddie

If you could, swing by and edit. I'll also post a link from my LQwiki 
user page. I'll leave the draft up until after July 1, after that I'll 
go ahead and post the final form.

As for making the preamble more wikipedia centric, the problem is I 
can't think of too many ways the wikipedia benefits. The only way I can 
think of is backporting - Another wiki could improve on an article, and 
then edit the changes back into the orginal article. The main reason for 
the wikipedia to get away from gfdl is because it prevents the 
contributors works from being used in the way they want. If  CC works 
can be released under the GFDL this could happen now (except that the 
other wikis can't use the orginal article...) Can CC works be put under 
the GFDL?

I would also like to keep the petition simple, but I think the subject 
is a bit complex, and I would like to cover all the bases.

Basically, I'm going to go wikify it, and then let the community work it 
over a bit.